Abigail, David and Nabal Crossword (Easy, Medium and Hard)

These free Abigail, David and Nabal crossword puzzles come in three levels, so every reader in your class can finish one. Every answer comes from the King James Bible (1 Samuel 25:2–42), and each level downloads with or without an answer key.

• Easy (ages 5–7): short answers, simple clues and a word box to pick from.
• Medium (grades K–2): more words and no word box.
• Hard (grades 3–5): kids look up each verse in their Bible to find the answer.

Use them after the Abigail, David and Nabal Bible story page, with the maze and word search.

The Bible story

Nabal was very great, with three thousand sheep, but he was churlish, and when David's young men asked him for food, Nabal answered, "Who is David?" David and his men girded on their swords to go against him. Abigail, "a woman of good understanding," made haste and laid loaves, raisins and cakes of figs on asses, met David, and fell at his feet, and David said, "blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood." About ten days after, Nabal died, and David sent and took Abigail to be his wife. Read the whole story in 1 Samuel 25:2–42 (KJV).

Memory verse: "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger." (Proverbs 15:1, KJV). It is printed on every level.

The clues

The easy crossword has 6 answers and a word box to pick from. The medium crossword has 8 clues like these:

• Nabal was shearing his sheep in ___. (1 Samuel 25:2)
• Now the name of the man was ___. (1 Samuel 25:3)
• The name of Nabal's wife was ___. (1 Samuel 25:3)
• Then Abigail made ___. (1 Samuel 25:18)
• Abigail took two hundred ___. (1 Samuel 25:18)
• She took an hundred clusters of ___. (1 Samuel 25:18)
• David said, "And blessed be thy ___." (1 Samuel 25:33)
• Abigail went after the messengers of David, and became his ___. (1 Samuel 25:42)

The hard crossword has 11 clues, each with its verse printed after it, so kids find the answers in their own Bible.

Answer keys

Each level downloads two ways: the puzzle on its own, or with a second page that shows the answer (the filled grid with each answer's verse). Print the key for helpers, or let kids check their own work.