2000
King Benjamin’s Tower
September 2000


“King Benjamin’s Tower,” Friend, Sept. 2000, 46

King Benjamin’s Tower

Read Mosiah 2, then complete King Benjamin’s tower by filling in the missing word from each of these statements. If you can’t think of the answer, reread the verse listed in parentheses.

Crossword puzzle

Across

  1. King Benjamin __________ with his own hands (14).

  2. “When ye are in the _________ of your fellow beings ye are only in the __________ of your God” (17).

  3. King Benjamin told his people these things so that they would “learn _________” (17).

  4. He erected a tower so that the __________ could hear his words (7).

  5. He served his people righteously so that he could have a “clear __________ before God” (15).

  6. Even if we serve the Lord with our whole souls, we are still “__________ servants” (21).

Down

  1. They called Benjamin their __________ (18).

  2. The Nephites came to the temple to __________ King Benjamin’s words (1).

  3. They also came to thank God for giving them a king who “taught them to __________ the commandments” (4).

  4. The people knew that if they kept the commandments, they would “be filled with __________ towards God and all men” (4).

  5. “They pitched their __________ round about the temple” (6).

  6. King Benjamin was a “__________ and a king over this people” (11).

  7. He served with all his “might, mind and __________” (11).

  8. We “ought to thank [our] __________ King” (19).

  9. The Lord had “__________ … a just man to be their king” (4).

  10. The people were __________ that day to what King Benjamin had spoken (14).

  11. All men are “subject to … infirmities in body and __________” (11).

  12. God lends each person breath that they “may __________” (21).

Diagonally Down

  1. “Serve one __________” (18).

  2. “Consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the ______________s of God” (41).

Diagonally Up

  1. King Benjamin caused his words to “be __________ and sent forth” (8).

  2. “Beware lest there shall arise __________ among you” (32).

Answers:

  • Across—(1) labored, (2) service, (3) wisdom, (4) multitude, (5) conscience, (6) unprofitable. Down—(7) king, (8) hear, (9) keep, (10) love, (11) tents, (12) ruler, (13) strength, (14) heavenly, (15) appointed, (16) witnesses, (17) mind, (18) live. Diagonally Down—(19) another, (21) commandments. Diagonally Up—(20) written, (22) contentions.