Across
- 5. Name of the southern Jewish kingdom after the death of Solomon and their civil war
- 9. Name of the northern Jewish kingdom after the death of Solomon and their civil war
- 12. systematic scattering of the Jewish people
- 15. to worship only one god
- 17. people who claimed to speak to god
- 18. capital city of JUDAH
- 19. received the 10 Commandments on Mount Sinai
- 20. a judge and prophet who chose the first king of Israel
Down
- 1. Jewish leader during Roman rule who made additions to the temple in Jerusalem
- 2. father of the 12 tribes of Israel
- 3. the man who the Israelites believed they were descended from; they also believed that God told him to lead his people from Mesopotamia and go to Canaan and settle/live there
- 4. a pilgrimage site because it is the only reaming wall of the temple in Jerusalem
- 6. king of Israel, forced conquered people to pay high taxes
- 7. the religion of the Israelite people, the ancestor of Christianity and Islam
- 8. first king of Israel who was an excellent military leader
- 10. military leaders
- 11. to worship many gods
- 13. king of Israel who built a magnificent temple
- 14. the language of the Israelite people
- 16. the religious book of the Jewish people
