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 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 the Talmud, this extension occurred in the time of King David, when his son Amnon raped Absalom's sister, Tamar.

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 the Book of Joshua, Adonizedek led a confederation of Jebusites, and the tribes from the neighbouring cities of Jarmut, Lachish, Eglon and Hebron against Joshua, () but was soundly defeated, and killed.

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.