Bible crossword puzzle
Twelve clues from the best-known pages of Scripture: a boat full of animals, a boy with a sling, a garden, a giant and the town where the story of Christmas begins.
The grid and the clues
12 clues to solve: 4 across and 8 down.
Across
- 6. The shepherd boy who defeated Goliath with a sling (5)
- 7. The town where Jesus was born (9)
- 9. He built the ark before the great flood (4)
- 12. The feeding trough where the baby Jesus was laid (6)
Down
- 1. Isaiah, Jeremiah or Elijah, for example (7)
- 2. The Philistine giant defeated by David (7)
- 3. The prophet swallowed by a great fish (5)
- 4. One of the 150 songs in the Bible's longest book (5)
- 5. He received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai (5)
- 8. The garden where Adam and Eve lived (4)
- 10. Heavenly messenger, like Gabriel (5)
- 11. Noah's huge wooden boat (3)
What does it draw from?
The stories most people meet first: the flood, the exodus, one very uneven duel and the nativity. Every clue names the person, place or object exactly as the account does, so the puzzle works for a Sunday school table, a church bulletin or a quiet solve at home. Nothing here requires chapter-and-verse memory, only the stories themselves.
A puzzle that starts conversations
Bible crosswords earn their place in classrooms because a clue is a question in disguise: whoever fills in the nine-letter town can usually also tell you what happened there, and the youngest solver at the table will ask about the giant. Print a few copies and let the retelling happen.
Print it
The free puzzle PDF and the separate answer key PDF are one sheet each. All the other themes are on the printable crossword puzzles page.
