According to the Bible, Absalom or Avshalom () was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.

According to the Hebrew Testament, Hezekiah assumed the throne when he was 25 () and reigned for 29 years ().

According to the books Exodus, Numbers and Joshua, he became the leader of the Israelite tribes after the death of Moses ; his name was Hoshe ' a the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him Yehoshu ' a ( Joshua ) () the name by which he is commonly known ; and he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus, and was probably the same age as Caleb, with whom he is occasionally associated.

() According to the Bible, it was God's doing, his judgment on Assyria's pride ().

" () According to the current Roman Catholic Pope, Benedict XVI, " Peace is achieved by consciences that are open to the truth and to love "

According to the official version, the Communist Party of Vietnam () is leading the Vietnamese people " in carrying out the country's renovation, modernisation and industrialisation.

According to the Nihon Shoki and Kojiki, a Korean scholar called Wani () was dispatched to Japan by the Kingdom of Baekje during the reign of Emperor Ōjin in the early 5th century, bringing with him knowledge of Confucianism and Chinese characters.

According to the Kallikratis reform, as of 1 January 2011 the Thessaloniki Urban Area () which makes up the " City of Thessaloniki ", is made up of six self-governing municipalities () and one municipal unit ().

" () According to the Hebrew Bible, Israelites were the " chosen people " of God.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of, making Jacksonville the largest city in land area in the contiguous United States ; of this, 86. 66 % () is land and ; 13. 34 % () is water.

According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Reuben () was one of the Tribes of Israel.

According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Judah () was one of the Tribes of Israel.

According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Ephraim () was one of the Tribes of Israel.

According to the Book of Mormon, a religious text of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Nephite () is a member of one of the four main groups of settlers of the ancient Americas.

According to Greek mythology and legendary prehistory of the Aegean region, the Minyans () were an autochthonous group inhabiting the Aegean region.

According to the mythological Greek Alexander Romance, Queen Thalestris () of the Amazons brought 300 women to Alexander the Great, hoping to breed a race of children as strong and intelligent as he.

According to tradition, Gwyddno was the lord of Cantre ' r Gwaelod () in what is now Cardigan Bay.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew () is a 1964 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

According to the Gospel of Luke () a traveller ( who may or may not be Jewish ) is beaten, robbed, and left half dead along the road.

According to Suda, both his " constitution " () and his " precepts " () were composed in elegiac couplets, but Pausanias also mentions " anapests ", a few lines of which, quoted by Dio Chrysostom and attributed to Tyrtaeus by a scholiast, could have belonged to the so-called " war songs " (), of which nothing else survives.

According to the Book of Mormon, a Lamanite () is a member of a dark-skinned nation of indigenous Americans that battled with the light-skinned Nephite nation.

The Book of Joshua () is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and of the Old Testament.

The Book of Jeremiah () is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the book of Isaiah and preceding Ezekiel and the Book of the Twelve.

Stephen Cook asserts that the prophetic efforts of this book can be summed up in this passage " I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt ; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior " () Hosea's job was to speak these words during a time when that had been essentially forgotten.

The book closes abruptly () with an epistolary warning based on the emblematic trope of a fast growing vine present in Persian narratives, and popularized in certain collections of Aesop's fables such as The Gourd and the Palm-tree during the Renaissance, for example by Andrea Alciato.

The term " ecology " () is of a more recent origin and was first coined by the German biologist Ernst Haeckel in his book Generelle Morphologie der Organismen ( 1866 ).

Leaving Rome in 1540, Francis took with him a breviary, a catechism and a Latin book () written by the Croatian humanist Marko Marulić that had become popular in the counter-reformation.

In the 1960s the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara developed the foco () theory of revolution in his book Guerrilla Warfare, based on his experiences during the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

Mohism is best known for the concept of " impartial love " or " universal love " () and " No Evasion " () Mozi's philosophy was described in the book Mozi, compiled by his students from his lecture notes.

Vom Kriege () is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz ( 1780 – 1831 ), written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife in 1832.

A palimpsest () is a manuscript page from a scroll or book from which the text has been scraped off and which can be used again.

The Roman Missal () is the liturgical book that contains the texts and rubrics for the celebration of the Mass in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.

This seven-year week may be further divided into two periods of 3. 5 years each, from the two 3. 5-year periods in Daniel's prophecy where the last seven years are divided into two 3. 5-year periods, () The time period for these beliefs is also based on other passages: in the book of Daniel, " time, times, and half a time ", interpreted as " a year, two years, and half a year ," and the Book of Revelation, " a thousand two hundred and threescore days " and " forty and two months " ( the prophetic month averaging 30 days, hence 1260 / 30 = 42 months or 3. 5 years ).

The Book of the Courtier () is a courtesy book.

The First Book of Nephi () is the first book of the Book of Mormon.

Except for the random one-time pad, the security of these systems has not () been proven mathematically, so a theoretical breakthrough could make everything one has encrypted an open book.

Primož Trubar or Primož Truber () ( 1508 – 28 June 1586 ) was the author of the first Slovene language printed book, the founder and the first superintendent of the Protestant Church of the Slovene Lands, notable for consolidating the Slovene language.

Terah or Térach () is a biblical figure in the book of Genesis, son of Nahor, son of Serug and father of the Patriarch Abraham, all descendants of Shem's son Arpachshad.

The Gulag Archipelago () is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the Soviet forced labour camp system.

He wrote his first book Mu: The God Revolution, or Mu: Kami no Kakumei () in Japanese, during the same year, and worked to spread word of the benefits of his methods and philosophy.

In Greek mythology, Cocalus () was a king of Kamikos in Sicily, according to Diodorus Siculus ( book iv ).

The Conquest of Bread () is a book by the anarchist communist Peter Kropotkin.

German writer ( and sometime lecturer at the University of East Anglia ) W. G. Sebald in his second book The Rings of Saturn () details a coastal walk along the Suffolk coast.

Tintin and Alph-Art () was the intended twenty-fourth and final book in the Tintin series, created by Belgian comics artist Hergé.