According to the Bible, Amnon (, " faithful ") was the oldest son of David, King of Israel, with his wife, Ahinoam, who is described as " the Jezreelitess ".

The Gospel According to Mark (,, to euangelion kata Markon ), commonly shortened to the Gospel of Mark or simply Mark, is the second book of the New Testament.

The Gospel According to Luke (, to kata Loukan euangelion ), commonly shortened to the Gospel of Luke or simply Luke, is the third and longest of the four canonical Gospels.

Early on, the gospel was given the title Gospel According to Luke (, kata Loukan euangelion, or, to euangelion kata Loukan ).

The Gospel According to Matthew (, to euangelion kata Matthaion ) ( Gospel of Matthew or simply Matthew ) is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testament.

According to the United States scholar Nicholas Eberstadt and demographer Judith Banister, vital statistics and personal information on residents are kept by agencies on the ri, or ni (,: village, the local administrative unit ) level in rural areas and the dong (,: district or block ) level in urban areas.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ), the word comes ultimately from Greek (, " accent of ' turning away ', or elision "), through Latin and French.

According to Greek mythology, Aegyptus (, Aígyptos ) is a descendant of the heifer maiden, Io, and the river-god Nilus, and was a king in Egypt.

According to Sophocles ' play Antigone, Haemon or Haimon (, Haimon " bloody "; gen .: Αἴμωνος ), was the son of Creon and Eurydice.

According to another opinion, it is a Ukrainian diminutive, or endearing form of the word tachka (, meaning ' wheelbarrow ').

According to the Hebrew Bible, Bathsheba (, Bath Shebha, " daughter of the oath ") (, " ابنة القسم ") was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.

According to one of the classic texts of Confucianism, Zhou Li ( 周禮 / 周礼 ), Archery and charioteering were part of the " six arts " (, including rites, music, calligraphy and mathematics ) of the Zhou Dynasty ( 1122 – 256 BCE ).

According to Mary Magdalene (, 1997 ) is a novel by the Swedish novelist Marianne Fredriksson.

According to Guinness World Records, the roller coaster with the most inversions counted this way is Eejanaika (, Ain't it great?

According to the Book of Genesis, Reuben or Re ' uven (, ) was the first and eldest son of Jacob with Leah.

According to the 5th century Dharmaguptaka monk Buddhayaśas, the translator of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya into Chinese, the Dharmaguptaka school had assimilated the " Mahāyāna Tripiṭaka " (, Dàchéng Sānzàng ).

According to a newspaper article in Neues Deutschland dated 20 June 1972 the Cuban leader announced the renaming of the island, and one of its beaches to Playa " República Democrática Alemana " (, ).

According to an Old Believer legend, the oldest of the sketes, the Olenevsky Skete (, i. e. " The Skete of the Deer "), had supposedly been founded in the 15th century by some of Venerable Macarius's monks to commemorate their leader's Miracle of the Moose that took place at that site, and later joined the Raskol.

According to the Hustyn Chronicle (, Hustyns ' kyi litopys ), Askold and Dir ( Haskuldr and Dyri ) ruled Rus ' Khaganate at least in 842.

According to its 2000 annual report (, in Hebrew ), the 2000 budget was 16. 6 million NIS ( about US $ 4 million ), with revenues of 12. 9 million NIS ( US $ 3 million ).

According to the Torah, Uzziel (, meaning El is my strength or God is my strength ) was the father of Mishael, Elzaphan, and Zithri, and was a son of Kohath and grandson of Levi, consequently being the brother of Amram and uncle of Aaron, Miriam, and Moses.

According to the 4th-century report of Pappus of Alexandria, Apollonius ' own book on this problem — entitled (, " Tangencies "; Latin: De tactionibus, De contactibus )— followed a similar progressive approach.

The Book of Lamentations (, Eikhah, ʾēkhā ( h )) is a poetic book of the Hebrew Bible composed by the Jewish prophet Jeremiah.

With the introduction of European astronomy into China via the Jesuits, the motions of both the sun and moon began to be calculated with sinusoids in the 1645 Shíxiàn calendar (, Book of the Conformity of Time ) of the Qing dynasty, made by the Jesuits Adam Schall and Giacomo Rho.

The Book of Ecclesiastes (; Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστής ), originally called Qoheleth (, literally, " Preacher ") in Hebrew, is a book of the Tanakh's Ketuvim and the Old Testament.

Popular reviews of the Book of Joshua's sharp contrasts and internal conflicts arise from " an appreciable difference between defeating a king in battle, and gaining possession of his capital city " ( vs.,,, ); and because " the land was now within the grasp of the Israelites they did not avail themselves fully of that dominion which was within their reach " (,, vs., ).

The Unua Libro (, First Book ) was the first publication to describe the international language Esperanto ( then called Lingvo Internacia, " international language ").

Zechariah (, " YHWH has remembered "; Zakariya < nowiki >'</ nowiki > or Zakkariya ; Zakharias ; ) was a person in the Hebrew Bible and traditionally considered the author of the Book of Zechariah, the eleventh of the Twelve Minor Prophets.

Esther and Mordecai, by Aert de GelderMordecai or Mordechai (, IPA value: ) is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible.

Samson, Shimshon (, meaning " man of the sun "); Shamshoun ( /) or Sampson () is the third-to-last of the Judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) ( Book of Judges chapters 13 to 16 ).

The Horologion (; Church Slavonic: Chasoslov, Часocлoвъ ), or Book of Hours, provides the fixed portions of the Daily Cycle of services (, ) as used by the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches.

Judah (, Yhuda ) was, according to the Book of Genesis, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Judah.

The Land of Nod (, ארץ נוד ) is a place in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, located " on the east of Eden " ( qidmat -‘ Eden ), to which Cain chose to flee after murdering his brother Abel.

Nimrod (, ) is, according to the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles, the son of Cush and great-grandson of Noah and the king of Shinar.

The Minor Prophets or Twelve Prophets (, Trei Asar, " The Twelve "), occasionally Book of the Twelve, are the collection constituting the last book of the Jewish Tanakh's Nevi ' im and the last twelve books of the Old Testament ; the terms " minor prophets " and " twelve prophets " can also refer to the twelve writers of these prophetic works.

Levi / Levy (, ; Levy ; " joining ") was, according to the Book of Genesis, the third son of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Levi ( the levites ).

:* In the Book of Exodus, God deliberately " hardened Pharaoh's heart ", making him even more unwilling to free the Hebrew slaves (, ).

Hagar hay ' gahr (, meaning " uncertain "; Agar ; ; Hājar ) is a biblical person in the Book of Genesis Chapter 16.

It was " a reproach " for an Israelite to be uncircumcised () The name arelim ( uncircumcised ) became an opprobrious term, especially a pejorative name for the Philistines, who might have been of Greek origin, in the context of the fierce wars recounted in the Book of Samuel (,.

Basemath, Bashemath, or Basmath (, Arabic: بسمة ; " Sweet-smile ") is a character in the Book of Genesis.

This high priesthood had been foreshadowed in the Book of Mormon, which referred to men holding the unique position of high priest in the church organization described in that book, holding the " high priesthood of the holy order of God " (, ); however, the office of high priest was not implemented in early Mormonism until some days after Joseph Smith, Jr. was joined in his ministry by Sidney Rigdon, a newly-converted Church of Christ minister from Ohio, who merged his congregation with Smith's Church of Christ.

The Mishneh Torah (, " Repetition of the Torah ") subtitled Sefer Yad HaHazaka ( ספר יד החזקה " Book of the Strong Hand ,") is a code of Jewish religious law ( Halakha ) authored by Maimonides ( Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, also known as RaMBaM or " Rambam "), one of history's foremost rabbis.

Deborah (, ) was a prophetess of the God of the Israelites, the fourth Judge of pre-monarchic Israel, counselor, warrior, and the wife of Lapidoth according to the Book of Judges chapters 4 and 5.

Madai (, ; Greek: Μηδος, ) is a son of Japheth and one of the 16 grandsons of Noah in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible.

The Black Book: The Ruthless Murder of Jews by German-Fascist Invaders Throughout the Temporarily-Occupied Regions of the Soviet Union and in the Death Camps of Poland during the War 1941 – 1945 alternatively The Black Book of the Holocaust, or simply The Black Book, (, Chornaya Kniga ;