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ACROSS 2   The "nonwriting" prophet who challenged the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel 5   The Babylonian king who destroyed Jerusalem and took thousands of Jews into Exile 7   Prophetic ministry which challenged people to repent and restore their relationship with God 8   A king whom Jeremiah accuses of covenant unfaithfulness and hypocritical religiosity 11   A word that Isaiah uses to refer to God's Kingdom 15   What our textbook calls "the greatest prophetic book in the Old Testament"; this book contains more material about the Messiah than any other Old Testament writing 16   A basic building block of Hebrew poetry which refers to the the relationship between two or more lines of verse 18   The oldest of the prophetic writings in the Bible

DOWN 1   Type of Psalms which are cries to God for help 3   A king whom Isaiah counseled; it was this king who withstood the Assyrian seige of Jerusalem, in part because of the water tunnel he constructed 4   A book which many people think was written by Jeremiah on the occasion of the fall of Jerusalem and the subsequent Babylonian captivity of Judah; it acknowledges sin as the cause of the destruction of Jerusalem and is a plea for God's mercy 6   A book that celebrates human sexuality as a normal part of the love and affection shared by a married couple 9   A prophet during the Babylonian exile who prepared the nation for their eventual restoration and rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem (e.g., the vision of the valley of dry bones); at one point God commanded him to eat a scroll; his writings contain a lot of end time teachings about the final defeat of God's enemies 10   A prophet who witnessed the destruction of Jerusalem; in his preaching/writing he used many symbolic "object lessons" (pottery, yoke, tree by the water, etc.); he was arrested more than once 12   A Judean king who began a religious reformation prompted by the discovery of the Book of the Law 13   The Hebrew Bible's songbook which provides us with the language to praise and pray to God 14   The scribe who wrote down the words of Jeremiah the prophet 17   The name of a nation that appears in Ezekiel (and later in Revelation) and may symbolize all the evil powers in the world that are hostile to God's plans and purposes

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