Prophets Word Search
Seventeen books of the Old Testament carry the names of prophets who spoke messages they believed came from God. Those names run from short ones like Amos to longer ones like Zephaniah.
Prophets word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- amos
- daniel
- elijah
- elisha
- ezekiel
- isaiah
- jeremiah
- jonah
- moses
- samuel
Prophets word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- amos
- daniel
- elijah
- elisha
- ezekiel
- hosea
- isaiah
- jeremiah
- joel
- jonah
- micah
- moses
- nahum
- obadiah
- samuel
Prophets word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- amos
- daniel
- elijah
- elisha
- ezekiel
- habakkuk
- haggai
- hosea
- isaiah
- jeremiah
- joel
- jonah
- malachi
- micah
- moses
- nahum
- obadiah
- samuel
- zechariah
- zephaniah
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Words in the Prophets word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- moses
- Led the Israelites out of Egypt and received the commandments
- samuel
- Anointed Israel's first two kings, Saul and David
- elijah
- Confronted the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel
- elisha
- Followed Elijah and served as prophet after him
- isaiah
- Wrote the longest prophetic book in the Old Testament
- jeremiah
- Called the weeping prophet, warned Jerusalem before its fall
- daniel
- Served in Babylon and was thrown into a lions den
- jonah
- Swallowed by a great fish on the way to Nineveh
- ezekiel
- Prophesied to exiles in Babylon and saw the valley of bones
- amos
- A shepherd from Tekoa who preached about justice
- hosea
- His marriage became a picture of God and Israel
- joel
- Wrote about a locust plague and a coming day of the Lord
- micah
- Foretold that a ruler would come from Bethlehem
- nahum
- Wrote about the fall of the city of Nineveh
- obadiah
- Author of the shortest book in the Old Testament
- haggai
- Urged the returned exiles to rebuild the temple
- zechariah
- Encouraged temple rebuilding and wrote of a coming king
- malachi
- The last book of the Old Testament in Christian Bibles
- habakkuk
- Asked God hard questions about justice and waited for answers
- zephaniah
- Warned Judah about the day of the Lord
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