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 the Qur ' an, Holy book of I-salami ( which translated means " submission "), Chapter ( 5 ) sūrat l-māidah ( The Table spread with Food ), proclaims that virtue is acceptance to the will of God, acceptance of the ways of God, acceptance of divine grace, of forgiveness, mercy, gracious, true repentance, the redemption, acceptance of the ways of Peace, the acceptance of the way things are.

According to the Greek mythological story even with her speed she quickly ran out of energy and crash-landed on an island in the middle of the ocean and begged for mercy from the Gods.

According to Quintus Smyrnaeus, while slaughtering countless Trojans, Diomedes met an elderly man named Ilioneus who begged for mercy.

According to Amin's account, when Hitler expounded his view that the Jews were responsible for WW1, Marxism and its revolutions, and this was why the task of Germans was to persevere in a battle without mercy against the Jews, he replied :-

According to Jewish tradition, the Shekhinah ( שכינה ) ( Divine Presence ) used to appear through this gate, and will appear again when the Messiah comes ( Ezekiel 44: 1 – 3 ) and a new gate replaces the present one ; that is why Jews used to pray for mercy at the former gate at this location.

According to the Gospels, he taunted Jesus about not saving himself, while the penitent thief asked for mercy.

He is noted to have a special defence ; a 30 % resistance to pleas of mercy. According to his background in this article, Artax originally adventured with a different group of adventurers-consummate professionals who were truly interested in doing good.

According to a scholar, food is one of the panabi-nabian, prophet, a mercy and a gift from Allah.

According to the Catholic Catechism, there are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting, rejects the forgiveness of his sins and the salvation offered by the Holy Spirit.

According to the composer, " the work craves absolution and offers Isobel Gowdie the mercy and humanity that was denied her in the last days of her life ".

According to Vacca, the incident took place in Turkey during the festival of Gurban Bayrami, the religious Muslim Festival of Sacrifice ( Eid ), which is commemorated annually to acknowledge God ’ s mercy in providing Abraham with a ram as a substitute sacrifice for his son Ismayil.

According to the Biblical account ( Exodus 25: 19 ; 37: 6 ), the mercy seat was manufactured from pure gold, and was the same width and breadth as the Ark beneath it – 2. 5 cubits long, and 1. 5 cubits wide ; the Ark and mercy seat were, according to this passage, kept inside the Holy of Holies – the Temple's innermost sanctuary, the Sanctum Sanctorum, which was separated from the remainder of the temple by a thick curtain ( parochet ), because the ark and mercy seat were associated with the presence of Yahweh.

According to the Biblical directions, the Holy of Holies could only be entered at Yom Kippur, and even then could only be entered by the Jewish High Priest, who was covenanted to do so in order to sprinkle the blood of a sacrificial bull onto the mercy seat, as an atonement for himself and his family, the other priests, the Tabernacle, and the people of Israel ; the directions specify that incense was first burnt in the Holy of Holies so that a cloud rose up and appeared above the mercy seat.

According to the book Our Lady of Fátima by William Thomas Walsh ( Macmillan, 1947 ), in an interview with the author Sr. Lucia states that, “ The correct form is the one I have written in my account of the apparition of July 13: ‘ O my Jesus, pardon us, and save us from the fire of hell ; draw all souls to heaven, especially those most in need .’” Note that this version does not have the commonly-added phrase “ of thy mercy ” to the end of it.

According to Faustina's visions, written in her diary, the chaplet's prayers for mercy are threefold: to obtain mercy, to trust in Christ's mercy, and to show mercy to others.

According to author Sean Egan in the James Kirkwood biography Ponies & Rainbows, Murphy ’ s will left Lee at the financial mercy of his widow ( married subsequent to Lee ), who consequently became the manipulative character Aunt Claire in P. S.

According to trial records, Łukasiewicz appealed for the tsar's mercy.