Bible crossword puzzle: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and 1 and 2 Samuel
Based on material in chapters seven and eight, Discovering the Bible by Alex
Varughese
Challenge: Can you solve this crossword puzzle even if you do not have the book by
Varughese?
ACROSS
- 3 The man Samuel anointed as Israel's first king
- 7 The second king of Israel. He who was referred to as a man "after God's own
heart." Our textbook said he was the king during Israel's Golden Years.
- 8 David's son who killed his brother Amnon in retaliation for the rape of their sister
Tamar. This man later tried to wrest the throne from his father
- 9Saul's son who was David's close friend
- 12 A woman prophetess-judge whose leadership brought deliverance from
oppression to Israel
- 13 The book that presents the stories of entering, possessing, and distributing the
land as a solemn act of worship
- 14 A Jericho resident who assisted two spies sent to her city because she
recognized God's power at work among the Israelites
- 16 A priest who had two evil sons
DOWN
- 1 A biographical sketch of a Moabite lady who was the great-grandmother of King
David
- 2 A book covering 350 years of Israel's "Dark Ages." It takes its name from the
warrior heroes who were the central characters in its stories
- 3 Israel's last judge, a priest and the first of the prophets; this man stands between
th era of judges and the era of statehood and kingship
- 4 A judge of Israel who defeated a far larger Midianite army with only 300 men
(pared down from the 32,000 soldiers who initially showed up for the battle)
- 5 Mother of Samuel. She had made a vow to God that if He would give her a son,
she would consecrate that son as a Nazarite
- 6 The woman with whom David committed adultery. The second son that David
fathered with her was named Solomon
- 10 A physically powerful man who was raised as a godly Nazarite but whose life
illustrates how leaders can falter badly
- 11 The prophet who confronted David about his sins in the affair with
Bathsheba
- 13 Father of King David
- 15 The god of a Canaanite fertility religion
This crossword puzzle was created for use in the course Introduction to Biblical Literature.
The words and clues come from the textbook Discovering the Bible: Story and Faith of the
Biblical Communities edited by Alex Varughese and published by what is now called The
Foundry.
-- Howard Culbertson,
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