Crossword Puzzle

Clues Across

1. After instituting an improved judicial system, King Jehoshaphat laid this command upon the judges, since they were judging for Jehovah and not for man [4 words] (2 Chronicles 19:11)

7. Christ’s Millennial Rule involves his having not only subordinate king-priests in heaven but also these appointed representatives on earth (Psalm 45:16)

9. Jesus’ 11 faithful apostles were all from this region (Luke 4:14)

10. In answer to Joshua’s request, this became “motionless over Gibeon” until the Amorites could be defeated (Joshua 10:12, 13)

11. Domain (Esther 1:20)

12. In Ezekiel’s vision, the expanse above the heads of the living creatures resembled this (Ezekiel 1:22)

13. An ancestor of Jesus’ mother, Mary (Luke 3:28)

16. As Deuteronomy 3:17 shows, one of its names is “the sea of the Arabah” [2 words]

19. Marriage (Joel 2:16)

22. This term, applied to Haman and his father, apparently showed them to be of Amalekite descent (Esther 3:10; 8:3)

24. Belonging to oneself (1 Thessalonians 4:11)

25. One of the cities conquered by the Assyrians and used by Rabshakeh as proof that all the gods of the nations could not resist Assyria’s mighty power (2 Kings 18:33-35)

27. A prophet prominent during David’s reign (2 Samuel 24:11)

29. What God made on the second creative day (Genesis 1:7)

30. The distant past [2 words] (Psalm 74:12)

31. Fertile ground [2 words] (Nahum 1:5)

Clues Down

1. The words that John, the son of Zechariah and Elizabeth, used to describe his work [3 words] (John 1:26)

2. The location from which Joshua sent the two spies to Jericho (Joshua 2:1)

3. Jude compared impostors in the Christian congregation to these hidden below water (Jude 12)

4. Fourth letter of the Greek alphabet

5. An ingredient of the “holy anointing oil” (Exodus 30:23-25)

6. A gift that Belshazzar offered to the man who could interpret the handwriting on the wall [3 words] (Daniel 5:7)

8. A land from which scattered Israelites would return to their homeland (Isaiah 49:12)

9. Pierced by a horn (Exodus 21:31)

14. Insect noted for industriousness and instinctive wisdom (Proverbs 6:6)

15. Judean king who faced an Ethiopian force of one million warriors (2 Chronicles 14:9, 10)

17. Jesus said that a father would not hand his son a scorpion if the son asked for this (Luke 11:12)

18. A stupid person who repeats his foolishness is likened to this animal returning to its vomit (Proverbs 26:11)

20. One of the two rivers of Damascus that Naaman considered superior to “all the waters of Israel” (2 Kings 5:12)

21. To stay with temporarily (Luke 19:7)

22. One killed 185,000 Assyrians (2 Kings 19:35)

23. One of the territories under the tetrarchy of Philip (Luke 3:1)

26. Intensely yearned (Psalm 119:81)

28. Thick (2 Peter 2:4)

Crossword Solutions Page 27

 Solutions Across

1. BE STRONG AND ACT

7. PRINCES

9. GALILEE

10. SUN

11. REALM

12. ICE

13. ELMADAM

16. DEAD SEA

19. NUPTIAL

22. AGAGITE

24. OWN

25. ARPAD

27. GAD

29. EXPANSE

30. LONG AGO

31. PRODUCTIVE LAND

Solutions Down

1. BAPTIZE IN WATER

2. SHITTIM

3. ROCKS

4. DELTA

5. CALAMUS

6. NECKLACE OF GOLD

8. SINIM

9. GORED

14. ANT

15. ASA

17. EGG

18. DOG

20. PHARPAR

21. LODGE

22. ANGEL

23. ITURAEA

26. PINED

28. DENSE