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 Brown Driver Briggs lexicon, the Hebrew abaddon ( Hebrew: אבדון ; avadon ) is an intensive form of the Semitic root and verb stem abad ( א ָ ב ַ ד ) " perish " ( transitive " destroy "), which occurs 184 times in the Hebrew Bible.

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 ".

According to the editors of the 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary, some scholars believe the name " Malachi " is not a proper noun but rather an abbreviation of " messenger of YHWH ".

According to the Bible, God commanded Abraham in the Binding of Isaac to sacrifice his son, but ultimately provided a ram as a substitute.

According to the Bible, " God raised him from the dead ", he ascended to heaven, is " seated at the right hand of the Father " and will ultimately return to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the Resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment and final establishment of the Kingdom of God.

According to the Bible, the Millennial age of peace all but closes the history of planet Earth.

According to her personal accounts, when she appeared to be near death, she called out for her Bible.

According to the traditional Jewish interpretation of the Bible, Israel's character as the chosen people is unconditional, as it says in,

According to Bernard McGinn, " mythic patterns " such as " the primordial struggle between good and evil " appear in passages throughout the Hebrew Bible, including passages that describe historical events.

According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6: 1-4 " is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology ", and the " sons of God " mentioned in that passage are " celestial beings of mythology ".

According to the New American Bible, the image in Revelation 12: 1-6 of a pregnant woman in the sky, threatened by a dragon, " corresponds to a widespread myth throughout the ancient world that a goddess pregnant with a savior was pursued by a horrible monster ; by miraculous intervention, she bore a son who then killed the monster ".

According to Christian writers, most notably Paul, the Bible teaches that people are, in their current state, sinful, and the New Testament reveals that Jesus is both the Son of man and the Son of God, united in the hypostatic union, God the Son, God made incarnate ; that Jesus ' death by crucifixion was a sacrifice to atone for all humanity's sins, and that acceptance of Jesus as Savior and Lord saves one from Divine Judgment, giving Eternal life.

According to the Hebrew Bible he returned from the Babylonian exile and reintroduced the Torah in Jerusalem ( Ezra 7-10 and Neh 8 ).

According to the Bible, she was a Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus.

According to the midrash Canticles Rabbah, it was Ezekiel whom the three pious men, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah ( also called Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the Bible ) asked for advice as to whether they should resist Nebuchadnezzar's command and choose death by fire rather than worship his idol.

According to Matthew Henry a Bible commentator who flourished in the 17th century, Ezekiel is also believed to have been known as Nazaratus Assyrius, a teacher to Pythagorus.

" According to Easton's Bible Dictionary, " Paul's authorship was undisputed in antiquity and was probably written about the same time as the First Epistle to Timothy, with which it has many affinities.

According to the World English Bible translation, Titus 1: 12-13 reads ( in part ) " One of them, a prophet of their own, said, ' Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.

According to a writer cited by the author of the Easton's Bible Dictionary, this epistle

According to the Bible, Solomon rewarded Hiram I for certain services by giving him the gift of an upland plain among the mountains of Naphtali.

According to the Hebrew Bible, he destroyed Solomon's Temple and exiled the Jews to Babylon.

According to the Hebrew Bible 50, 000 Judeans, led by Zerubabel returned to Judah and rebuilt the temple.

According to many accounts of Aggadah, unlike the Bible, it is Satan who is testing Isaac and not God.

According to Mohani Mohamed, the Arabian astronomer Alhazen ( 965 – 1037 ) made the first attempt at observing and measuring the Milky Way's parallax, and he thus " determined that because the Milky Way had no parallax, it was very remote from the Earth and did not belong to the atmosphere.

According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

According to the rules of the Nobel committee a maximum of three people may share the prize.

According to mission rules, Orion would have then re-docked with Casper, in case mission control decided to abort the landing and use the Lunar Module's engines for the return trip to Earth.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

According to Tom Roberts, author of Alex Raymond: His Life and Art ( 2007 ), Capp delivered a stirring speech that was instrumental in changing those rules.

According to Article 12, Parties are directed to adopt a protocol that establishes liability rules and procedures that are appropriate for damage that comes from the movement of hazardous waste across borders.

According to the objectivist view, the rules of Bayesian statistics can be justified by requirements of rationality and consistency and interpreted as an extension of logic.

According to Carrom rules, the powder must be of high quality to keep the surface smooth and dry, and shall not be wet.

According to Party rules, the Central Committee directed all Party and government activities between each Party Congress.

According to party rules, the Central Committee was to convene at least twice a year to discuss political matters ( but not matters relating to military policy ).

According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, " As allowed by the award rules for this year, a single nomination could honor work in one or more films.

According to the traditional doctrine ( Dicey ), conventions cannot be enforced in courts, because they are non-legal sets of rules.

According to " Twenty rules for writing detective stories ," by Van Dine in 1928: " The detective story is a kind of intellectual game.

According to the formalist, mathematics is manipulation of symbols according to agreed upon formal rules.

According to the rules stipulated by the governing body of rugby league in Australia a forward pass is relative to the player making the pass and not the actual path relative to the ground.

According to the rules of Indo-European ablaut, the full grade ( containing an * e ), * gheud -, might be replaced with the zero-grade ( the * e disappears ), * ghud -, or the o-grade ( the * e changes to an * o ), * ghoud -, accounting for the various forms of the name.

According to the usual rules of quantum mechanics, the actual state of the electron may be any superposition of these states.

( According to chess rules, once a player has released a piece, he cannot make a different move.

According to the rules of IUPAC nomenclature, ketones are named by changing the suffix-ane of the parent alkane to-one.

According to these new rules, " mineral species can be grouped in a number of different ways, on the basis of chemistry, crystal structure, occurrence, association, genetic history, or resource, for example, depending on the purpose to be served by the classification.

According to ECA rules 60 % of these funds had to be invested in industry.

According to Jewish tradition, the Jewish calendar is calculated based on mathematical rules handed down from God to Moses at the moment the command was given to make sure that Passover always falls in the springtime.

According to the rules, the five-card hand's value must exceed the two-card hand's, and that is why the two-card hand is often called the hand " in front " or " on top " or " hair ", or the " small " or " minor " or " low " hand.

According to Hart, law is essentially a system of primary social rules that guide the conduct of law's subjects, and secondary rules that regulate how the primary rules may be changed, how disputes about them are to be adjudicated and, especially, how the primary rules are to be identified.