According to the book, the Prophet Jeremiah was a son of a priest from Anatot in the land of Benjamin, who lived in the last years of the Kingdom of Judah just prior to, during, and immediately after the siege of Jerusalem, culminating in the destruction of Solomon's Temple and the raiding of the city by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

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

According to the Bible, during Solomon's reign Israel enjoyed great commercial prosperity, with extensive traffic being carried on by land with Tyre, Egypt, and Arabia, and by sea with Tarshish, Ophir, and South India.

According to Midrash Tehillim, the shamir was brought from paradise by Solomon's eagle ; but most of the rabbis state that Solomon was informed of the worm's haunts by Asmodeus.

According to the Bible, when the Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem following a decree from Cyrus the Great ( Ezra 1: 1-4, 2 Chron 36: 22-23 ), construction started at the original site of Solomon's Temple, which had remained a devastated heap during the approximately 70 years of captivity ( Dan.

According to the Tanakh, Solomon's Temple was built atop the Temple Mount in the 10th century BCE and destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE, and the Second Temple completed and dedicated in 516 BCE.

According to the literary historian Andrew M. Stauffer, " She has always been Rider Haggard's most popular and influential novel, challenged only by King Solomon's Mines in this regard ".

According to Stauffer, " She has always been Rider Haggard's most popular and influential novel, challenged only by King Solomon's Mines in this regard ".

According to the Old Testament, Hezekiah paid three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold to Assyria — a price so heavy that he was forced to empty the temple and royal treasury of silver and strip the gold from the doorposts of Solomon's temple.

According to the Book of First Kings ( 1 Kings 10: 12 ), and the Second Book of Chronicles ( II Chronicles 2: 8 ; 9: 10-11 ), it was used, together with cedar and pine, in the construction of Solomon's Temple including the crafting of musical instruments for use in the Temple.

According to Nihongi, he had six wives ; but Kojiki only gives five wives, identifying the third consort to the sixth one.

According to Gallus Anonymus, before becoming a Christian Mieszko had seven pagan wives, whom he had to get rid of as he married Dobrawa.

According to one hypothesis there was another daughter of Mieszko, married to a Pomeranian Slavic Prince ; she could be a daughter of Dobrawa or of one of the previous pagan wives.

According to Charles Nayoumealuk, who was interviewed in Nanook Revisited ( 1988 ), " the two women in Nanook-Nyla ( Alice Nuvalinga ) and Cunayou ( whose real name we do not know ) were not Allakariallak's wives, but were in fact common-law wives of Flaherty.

According to the Biblical narrative, the Deluge covered the whole world, killing every surface-dwelling creature except Noah, his wife, his sons and their wives, sea creatures, and the animals taken aboard Noah's Ark.

*" According to Julius Caesar, it was customary among the ancient Britons for brothers, and sometimes for fathers and sons, to have their wives in common.

According to legend Romulus established the Senate after he founded Rome by personally selecting the most noble men ( wealthy men with legitimate wives and children ) to serve as a council for the city.

According to the Bible, Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines.

According to the official court chronicler Qazwini, the relationship with his other wives " had nothing more than the status of marriage.

According to White, most of the never-chosen dossiers were photographs of actors of other TV series, such as George Takei, various series staffers and their wives, including Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Geller

According to the earlier chronicler, Geoffrey of Monmouth ( c. 1100 – c. 1155 ), Ebraucus had fifty children by his twenty wives, and was the founder of " Kaerebrauc " ( York ), " Alclud " ( Dumbarton ), and the " Maidens ' Castle ".

According to Homer's Iliad Altes was the father of Laothoe, one of the many wives ( or concubines ) of King Priam.

According to one legend, after creating the mountains, rivers, flora, fauna, and laws for humans to live by, Bunjil gathered his wives and sons then asked Crow, who had charge of the winds, to open his bags and let out some wind.

According to his mother's wishes, he visited both the wives of Vichitravirya to grant them each a son under the Niyoga system.

According to Terry Gould's The Lifestyle: a look at the erotic rites of swingers, swinging began among American Air Force pilots and their wives during World War II.

According to local legend, their wives brought everything they could carry, including furniture and bedding, to make a big bonfire on the quayside to guide their men home.

According to Emanuel Feldman ( 1965 ), basing his argument on Albright's interpretation of the archaeology of Nuzu, a wife could legally be awarded the title " sister ", and that this was the most sacred form of marriage, and hence Abraham and Isaac referred to their wives as " sisters " for this reason.

According to the NECEP database, within this patrilineal system polygynous marriages with up to four wives can occur.

According to N. Kanawati, King Teti had at least 9 daughters, by a number of wives, and the fact that they were named after his mother, Sesheshet, allows to trace his family.

According to the commission, the laws also have been used by husbands and other male family members to punish their wives and female family members for reasons that have nothing to do with perceived sexual impropriety.

According to at least one source, it was very rare for anyone in the later Mughal empire except royal wives to be burnt.

According to Sam Roberts of the New York Times, in 1970 four percent of American men earned less than their wives ; in 2007 this had risen to 42 %

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 Capp's brother Elliot, Alfred had finished all of Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw by the time he turned 13.

According to Elaine Hoffman, Gropius had approached the Dutch architect Mart Stam to run the newly founded architecture program, and when Stam declined the position, Gropius turned to Stam's friend and colleague in the ABC group, Hannes Meyer.

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

According to historian of Communism Archie Brown, the memory of the Cultural Revolution, where a form of mass political mobilization turned against the Party and resulted in chaotic destruction, may account for the reticence of educated Chinese to press for an end to one-party rule.

According to Murphy ’ s parody, when the television cameras were turned off, the sweet Gumby reverted to his true self: a cigar chomping, irascible celebrity who was highly demanding of the production executives.

According to the organisers, an estimated 250, 000 turned out into the streets.

According to Ernst Hanfstaengl, who was a close friend of Hitler throughout the later 1920s and early 1930s, Riefenstahl tried to begin a relationship with Hitler early on but was turned down by him.

According to Imad ad-Din, after Tell Khalid, Saladin took a detour northwards to Ain Tab, but he gained possession of it when his army turned towards it, allowing to quickly move backward another c. 100 km towards Aleppo.

According to John Tzetzes and Servius ' commentary on the Aeneid, Scylla was a beautiful naiad who was claimed by Poseidon, but the jealous Amphitrite turned her into a monster by poisoning the water of the spring where Scylla would bathe.

* According to Simon Cowell's biography and Bill Carter's book Desperate Networks, UPN was offered American Idol before FOX and turned it down.

According to Mike Nesmith, it was Dolenz's voice that made the Monkees ' sound distinctive, and even during tension-filled times Nesmith and Peter Tork voluntarily turned over lead vocal duties to Dolenz on their own compositions, such as Tork's " For Pete's Sake ", which became the closing title theme for the second season of the TV show.

According to later official claims the alphabet had turned out to have not been thought out well.

According to Keaton's autobiography, Natalie turned him out of their bedroom and hired detectives to follow him.

According to Gygax, TSR's stewardship turned Greyhawk into something very different from what he had envisioned.

According to the local legend, based on folk etymology, Berchtold V, Duke of Zähringen, the founder of the city of Bern, vowed to name the city after the first animal he met on the hunt, and this turned out to be a bear.

According to news reports at the time, Nixon answered questions about the 18-1 / 2 minute tape gap, altering White House tape transcripts turned over to the House Judiciary Committee, using the Internal Revenue Service to harass political enemies, and a $ 100, 000 contribution from billionaire Howard Hughes.

According to the sixteenth book of Diodorus ' history, Pausanias had been a lover of Philip, but became jealous when Philip turned his attention to a younger man, also called Pausanias.

According to the historian Mario Kessler, Stalin's supporters turned to anti-semitism to whip up sentiment against Trotsky ( as Trotsky was a Jew ).

According to Hocken ( 2009 ) " the new thrust that turned Hebrew Christians into Messianic Jews was distinctly charismatic.

According to a letter from his mother, one day, after a model failed to appear, Whistler turned to his mother and suggested he do her portrait.

According to Eusebius, this turned what appeared to be a committed Christian into a man who feigned sympathy for the sect but who eventually exposed his true bloodthirsty pagan nature, only to be stopped by the virtuous Constantine.

According to later traditions, Acheron had been a son of Helios and either Gaia or Demeter, who had been turned into the Underworld river bearing his name after he refreshed the Titans with drink during their contest with Zeus.

According to the rendering Daphne prays for help either to the river god Peneus or to Gaia, and is transformed into a laurel ( Laurus nobilis ): " a heavy numbness seized her limbs, thin bark closed over her breasts, her hair turned into leaves, her arms into branches, her feet so swift a moment ago stuck fast in slow-growing roots, her face was lost in the canopy.