Elijah Challenges the Prophets of Baal

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (4)
  2. 6. A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter (plural) (6)
  3. 7. The table in Christian churches where communion is given (5)
  4. 10. A ___ range in northwestern Israel near the Mediterranean coast (11)
  5. 11. The cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one (6)
  6. 14. Someone who speaks by divine inspiration (7)
  7. 15. The extremity of the superior limb (4)
  8. 16. A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth (6)

Down

  1. 1. Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain (5)
  2. 2. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples (4)
  3. 3. The abode of God and the angels (6)
  4. 5. Uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle (plural) (5)
  5. 8. Ruined by overcooking (5)
  6. 9. Wife of Ahab who was king of Israel (7)
  7. 12. A Hebrew prophet in the Old Testament who opposed the worship of idols (6)
  8. 13. The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees (4)