In the Book of Samuel, Abner ( Hebrew אבנר " Avner " meaning " father of is a light "), is first cousin to Saul and commander-in-chief of his army ( 1 Samuel 14: 50, 20: 25 ).

However, according to Josephus, in Antiquities, Book 7, Chapter 1, Joab had forgiven Abner for the death of his brother, Asahel, the reason being that Abner had slain Asahel honorably in combat after he had first warned Asahel and had no other choice but to kill him out of self defense.

* Livy, Book 1

His extant commentaries are on Prior Analytics ( Book 1 ), Topics, Meteorology, Sense and Sensibilia, and Metaphysics ( Books 1-5 ).

The last section of the book ( 7: 1 to 9: 8 ), commonly referred to as the Book of Visions, contains the only narrative section.

The ideas of discipline and justice, although not enacted here, correspond to the central message in what some refer to as the Book of Woes ( 5: 1 to 6: 14 ).

But the Greek 3rd Book of Ezra ( 1 Esdras ) suggests that Babylonians:

* Folio 7 recto: Lion ( Leo ) ( Physiologus, Chapter 1 ; Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XII, ii, 3-6 )

* Folio 23 verso: Mouse ( Mus ) ( Isidore of Seville, Etymologiae, Book XII, iii, 1 )

* Capp, Al, Li ' l Abner: Reuben Award Winner Series Book 1 ( 1985 ) Blackthorne

In novels and sometimes other types of books ( for example, biographies ), a book may be divided into several large sections, also called books ( Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, and so on ).

The Book of Chronicles is alluded to, though not directly quoted, in the New Testament ( Hebrews 5: 4 ; Matthew 12: 42 ; 23: 35 ; Luke 1: 5 ; 11: 31, 51 ).

A total of eight copies of the Book of Daniel have been found at Qumran: two in Cave 1, five in Cave 4, and one in Cave 6.

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In the Christian canon the Book of Ruth is placed between Judges and 1 Samuel.

( Haggai 1: 14-15 ) and the Book of Ezra indicates that it was finished on February 25 516 BCE " The Temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

The superscription of the Book of Zephaniah attributes its authorship to “ Zephaniah son of Cushi son of Gedaliah son of Amariah son of Hezekiah, in the days of King Josiah son of Amon of Judah ” ( 1: 1, NRSV ).

Instead a different process, that of producing an alternative book, led to the publication of Series 1, 2 and 3 in the 1960s, the 1980 Alternative Service Book and subsequently to the 2000 Common Worship series of books.

The ECP has since published its own Book of Common Prayer upon gaining full autonomy on 1 May 1990.

In September 1918, according to The Black Book of Communism, in only twelve provinces of Russia, 48, 735 deserters and 7, 325 " bandits " were arrested, 1, 826 were killed and 2, 230 were executed.

The most well known version is that written by Gerald Gardner, and includes material paraphrased works by Aleister Crowley, primarily from Liber ALThe Book of the Law ( particularly from Ch 1, spoken by Nuit, the Star Goddess ), and from his Liber XV: the Gnostic Mass as well as Liber LXV ( Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente, or the Book of the Heart Girt with the Serpent ), thus linking modern Wicca irrevocably to the cosmology and revelations of Thelema.

The Book of Amos contains several different key activities and genres which are used to expound upon its themes.

This description was included in Book 8 of his voluminous Philippica, which contains a dialogue between King Midas and Silenus, a companion of Dionysus.

* MP3 CD, a disc that contains MP3 files in Yellow Book format rather than converted from MP3 to Red Book format

The United Methodist Hymnal also contains ( at # 882 ) what it terms the " Ecumenical Version " of this creed — a version which is identical to that found in the Episcopal Church's current Book of Common Prayer.

The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement that adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.

A 14th-century manuscript, Book of Prayers, in the Francis Douce collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford contains a drawing in which two persons are shown, but they bowl to no mark.

* This article also contains a section on the Book of Nahum.

Most commentators assume that this indicates that Jude accepts the antediluvian patriarch Enoch as the author of the Book of Enoch which contains the same quotation.

Book 14 contains a unique description of the temple at Rügen Island.

His book about games of chance, Liber de ludo aleae (" Book on Games of Chance "), written in 1526, but not published until 1663, contains the first systematic treatment of probability, as well as a section on effective cheating methods.

Halakhot Gedolot (" Great Law Book "), by R. Simeon Kayyara, published two generations later, contains extensive additional material, mainly from Responsa and Monographs of the Geonim, and is presented in a form that is closer to the original Talmud language and structure.

In Book II he attempts to provide proof that Valentinianism contains no merit in terms of its doctrines.

The Book of Genesis contains the story of Jacob and Esau focusing on the sale of Esau's birthright to Jacob and the conflict that had spawned between their descendant nations because of this sale.

The poem also contains allusions to the Book of Revelation in its description of New Jerusalem and to the paradise of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Father Goose, His Book contains poems such as " There Was a Little Nigger Boy " and " Lee-Hi-Lung-Whan.

His book The Amazing Book of Mazes ( 2006 ) contains examples and photographs of numerous methods of maze construction, several of which have been pioneered by Fisher ; The Art of the Maze ( Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1990 ) contains a substantial history of the subject, whilst Mazes and Labyrinths ( Shire Publications, 2004 ) is a useful introduction to the subject.

It contains only 22 books ( neither the Minor Catholic Epistles of 2 Peter, 2 and 3 John, and Jude, nor the Book of Revelation were part of this translation ).

The Exeter Book contains a series of poems entitled Christ, sectioned into Christ I, Christ II and Christ III.

He is primarily known today for his maps and charts collected in his Kitab-ı Bahriye ( Book of Navigation ), a book that contains detailed information on navigation, as well as very accurate charts ( for its time ) describing the important ports and cities of the Mediterranean Sea.

The central poem of Book III is a summary of Proclus ' Commentary on the Timaeus, and Book V contains the important principle of Proclus that things are known not according to their own nature, but according to the character of the knowing subject.

Outside of the Book of Acts which contains the death of Saint Stephen, the Martyrdom is considered one of the earliest genuine accounts of a Christian martyrdom, and is one of the very few genuine accounts from the actual age of the persecutions.