Books 1

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice (plural) (6)
  2. 2. The second book of the Old Testament: tells of the departure of the Israelites out of slavery (6)
  3. 6. The fifth book of the Old Testament (11)
  4. 9. A Hebrew prophet of the 6th century BC who was exiled to Babylon in 587 BC (7)
  5. 11. An Israelite prophet who is remembered for his angry lamentations about the wickedness of his people (8)
  6. 12. The first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation (7)
  7. 13. The property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals (plural) (7)

Down

  1. 1. Moses' successor who led the Israelites into the Promised Land (6)
  2. 2. An Old Testament book telling of a rabbi's efforts in the 5th century BC to reconstitute Jewish law (4)
  3. 3. A youth who was taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into (6)
  4. 4. The third book of the Old Testament (9)
  5. 5. The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money (3)
  6. 7. An Old Testament book telling how a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes I in 444 BC became (8)
  7. 8. A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true (plural) (8)
  8. 10. The first of the major Hebrew prophets (6)
  9. 14. The great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of ___ in the Old Testament (4)