Name______Date______Chapter 7 The Old Testament Our Call to Faith and Justice

Across 1 2 3 4 5 1 Amos was the first prophet for whom there is a separate, recorded collection of ____ (7) 6 7 8 9 10 4 One of Israel s judges who was called a 11 12

prophet (7) 13

7 The ____ prophets are three of the writing 14 15 prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel whose books in the Old Testament are quite lengthy (5) 16 10 The name Elijah means YHWH is my ____ 17 18 (3) 19 11 Amos was particularly angry at the wealthy 20

for pouring excess money into Temple ____ 21 22 (9) 23 24 13 The prophets Elijah, Elisha, Amos, and Hosea called the people of the ____ Kingdom back to exclusive worship of God 25 26 and just treatment of others (8)

14 The prophets had a special connection with 27 28 29 this important Old Testament figure (5)

16 King ____ of Israel invaded the Southern 30 Kingdom to try to force King Ahaz of Judah to join a coalition (5) 31 32 19 All the prophets of the ninth and eighth centuries BC were at once conservative

and ____ (7) 33 34 20 Hosea s three children were named for one

of his ____ ideas (13) 35 22 Unlike Amos, this prophet seemed to hold out some hope for Israel (5)

23 The Hebrew word translated as prophet (4) Down messenger and selected by God to guide his people (7) 24 Unwisely sought out Egypt s help against the 2 God called Hosea to marry a known invading Assyrians (6) prostitute named ____ (5) 18 The opening words of a prophetic speech 25 The New Testament cast ____ in the role of that attribute what follows to God, as in Thus 3 Another name for Mount Sinai where Elijah says the Lord or The Lord said (9,7) Elijah announcing Jesus as Messiah (4,3,7) takes refuge after Jezebel threatens his life 27 Stories that describe people s initial (5) 20 Elijah was a prophet who symbolized the awareness that God wants them to do struggle between the religion of YHWH and 5 Many of the prophets announced that God the religion of the ____ (10) something specific (4,10) would judge the Israelites by the measure of 29 The ____ prophets are the twelve prophets their ____ (13) 21 The prophet who confronted David about his of the Old Testament whose recorded sinful behavior involving Bathsheba and 6 The prophets almost always spoke in the Uriah (6) sayings are much briefer than the others (5) ____, as if God were speaking (5,6) 31 Prophecies likely collected over a long period 22 Prophets are mentioned throughout the ____ 8 A kind of warrior-prophet combining both books (10) of time by their disciples (7) roles in one vocation (5) 26 Amos did believe that the destruction of the 32 Elijah literally throws his ____ on Elisha, 9 A person chosen to be a warrior and to lead signifying that Elisha will be his successor (5) people by God was intended to be____, not the people to military victory (4) destructive (11) 33 Considered the father of the prophets (6) 11 The last of the judges who anointed the kings 28 Moses was the ____ and the prophets were 34 The ____ prophets are categorized as major Saul and David (6) the law protectors (8) and minor prophets based on the length of 12 The prophets often spoke messages that the books bearing their names (7) 30 Amos lived in the Northern Kingdom in the were ____ with the ruling establishment (9) ninth century BC, under the rule of King 35 Hosea was a prophet who must be both 15 One can summarize the main concerns of ____, who married the Canaanite princess ____ and listened to (7) Elijah and Elisha as ____ and religious Jezebel (4) devotion to YHWH (6,7) 17 A person summoned by God or his