Ezra

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Abstaining from food (4)
  2. 5. An Old Testament book telling of a rabbi's efforts in the 5th century BC to reconstitute Jewish law (4)
  3. 8. Offering words of homage as an act of worship (6)
  4. 9. Characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice (9)
  5. 10. A Hebrew minor prophet (6)
  6. 11. A member of the people inhabiting ___ in biblical times (plural) (10)
  7. 12. Place of worship consisting of an edifice for the worship of a deity (6)
  8. 14. A nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right (9)
  9. 15. A rule made by the government (3)

Down

  1. 1. The basis on which something is grounded (10)
  2. 2. Persian prince who was defeated in battle by his brother Artaxerxes II (5)
  3. 3. An empire in southern Asia created by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC and destroyed (6)
  4. 4. Holy city in Israel (9)
  5. 6. A member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi (plural) (7)
  6. 7. A Hebrew minor prophet of the late 6th century BC (9)
  7. 13. To address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship (4)