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 figures from 2003, some popular tourist sites include ( in visitors per year ): Eiffel Tower ( 6. 2 million ), Louvre Museum ( 5. 7 million ), Palace of Versailles ( 2. 8 million ), Musée d ' Orsay ( 2. 1 million ), Arc de Triomphe ( 1. 2 million ), Centre Pompidou ( 1. 2 million ), Mont-Saint-Michel ( 1 million ), Château de Chambord ( 711, 000 ), Sainte-Chapelle ( 683, 000 ), Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg ( 549, 000 ), Puy de Dôme ( 500, 000 ), Musée Picasso ( 441, 000 ), Carcassonne ( 362, 000 ).

According to the Welsh Triads, Brân's head was buried in London where the White Tower now stands.

According to the Gap Clock Tower Association, " The clock's face, long telling the time to passing multitudes, overlooks, at the gap, William Penns ' entrance into Conestoga, now Lancaster County, in 1701.

According to the apocryphal story, James I after a good meal, officially knighted Sirloin steak (" Sir " loin ) at Hoghton Tower, a large stately home to north east of the town, where William Shakespeare once worked.

According to the non-canon New Line book The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare, in the films, the height of Minas Tirith from the bottom to the top of the Tower of Ecthelion, which individually is said to be tall is around, same as the Eiffel Tower, and the diameter of the city almost three-quarters of a mile ().

According to the Book of Mormon, " deseret " meant " honeybee " in the language of the Jaredites, a group believed by Mormons to have been led to the Americas during the time of the construction of the Tower of Babel ( see ).

" Plaza Bosques Tower " According the latest census by the National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Data Processing ( INEGI ), Aguascalientes City was the 13th largest metropolitan area by population in the country, with over 980, 000 people in the year 2010.

According to the PBS documentary In the Light of Reverence, approximately 85 % of climbers honor the ban and voluntarily choose not to climb the Tower during the month of June.

According to historical records, there was once a castle in this city by the name of Haft Hessar ( Seven Walls ) which had a thousand rooms and its grandeur equalled that of the Babylon Tower.

According to Barbara Tuchman in The Proud Tower: Europe 1880-1914, this view was so influential on the British empire and American naval strategists of the turn of the 19th to 20th century, that it effectively motivated the rise of the United States Navy and Germany's and Russia's and Japan's attempts to become main naval powers.

According to Tower, " the courage of these men should be officially recognized by our Government ," and he claimed that the medal " will be significant in demonstrating once again the solidarity of the American people in their determination to obtain humane treatment and release of our prisoners of war Vietnam.

According to an urban legend, the nearby Bank of China Tower was deliberately designed to shape like a blade so as to reflect bad feng shui to the Government House and its British administration.

According to a supplemental prose story by Robin Furth included in The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born ( issues # 7 & # 2, respectively ), Roland's ancestry traces back to Arthur Eld and Emmanuelle Deschain, the daughter of his seneschal, Kay Deschain, while the Crimson King's ancestry traces back to an affair between Arthur and the Crimson Queen.

According to and, it was during the time of Peleg that " the earth was divided " – traditionally, this is often assumed to be just before, during, or after the failure of Nimrod's Tower of Babel.

According to authors Mark Lindsay and David Lester, Houston McCoy, one of the two Austin Police Department officers who shot and killed Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower sniper, believed that Whitman could have shot him and fellow officer Ramiro Martinez, but " he was waiting for them, and wanted to be shot.

According to a royalist newsletter, while in the Tower she was threatened with torture on the rack to gain information.

According to the ranking system developed by the U. S .- based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the Eureka Tower qualifies as the tallest building in three of the four categories in which heights are ranked, namely height to the floor of the highest occupied floor of the building.

According to legend it's one of the Legendary Beasts reincarnated by Ho-Oh from the spirits of three Pokémon which died in the fire that gave Burnt Tower its name.

Tower of Hercules ( A Coruña, Galicia ( Spain ) | Galicia ) rebuilt 2nd and 18th centuries: According to the Lebor Gabála Érenn, Breogán was the father of Ith, the leader of an expedition to Ireland from the Iberian Peninsula ; from Breogán's Tower Ith first saw Ireland, 900 kilometres north

Duke Robert returned from the First Crusade in triumph, According to Orderic, Curthose was being encouraged to attack Henry by his barons but he remained indecisive until Ranulf Flambard, having escaped from the Tower of London, fled to Normandy where he appears to have influenced Duke Robert to go ahead with his invasion of England and depose his brother Henry.

According to the late Byzantine Patria of Constantinople, ancient Byzantium was enclosed by a small wall, which began on the northern edge of the acropolis, extended west to the Tower of Eugenios, then went south and west towards the Strategion and the Baths of Achilles, continued south to the area known in Byzantine times as Chalkoprateia, and then turned, in the area of the Hagia Sophia, in a loop towards the northeast, crossed the regions known as Topoi and Arcadianae and reached the sea at the later quarter of Mangana.

According to a December 2006 report, when it was announced that the construction of a new Avala Tower would commence that same month, over € 1 million was collected through fund-raising and donations.