But as there had been kept in the archives up to that time the genealogies of the Hebrews as well as of those who traced their lineage back to proselytes, such as Achior the Ammonite and Ruth the Moabitess, and to those who were mingled with the Israelites and came out of Egypt with them, Herod, inasmuch as the lineage of the Israelites contributed nothing to his advantage, and since he was goaded with the consciousness of his own ignoble extraction, burned all the genealogical records, thinking that he might appear of noble origin if no one else were able, from the public registers, to trace back his lineage to the patriarchs or proselytes and to those mingled with them, who were called Georae.

Holofernes was warned by Achior, the leader of the children of Ammon, against attacking the Jewish people.

Holofernes and his followers were angered by Achior.

Solomon gained a chance to prepare a meal for the Ammonite king, which the king found so impressive that the previous cook was sacked and Solomon put in his place ; the king's daughter, Naamah, subsequently fell in love with Solomon, but the family ( thinking Solomon a commoner ) disapproved, so the king decided to kill them both by sending them into the desert.

Moloch ( representing Semitic מלך m-l -, a Semitic root meaning " king ")— also rendered as Molech, Molekh, Molok, Molek, Molock, or Moloc — is the name of an ancient Ammonite god.

The stones ( Ammonite fossils ) collected from the bed of the Gandaki River at a place close to Saligrama or Muktinath ( literally meaning " place of salvation ") in the Mustang district of Nepal, it is first mentioned in " Devi Bhagavath " completely if we want to refer puranas, it is as so there was king name Dharmadwaja who was initially a devotee of goddess Lakshmi later became rival of the same & completely ruined but his son Padmadwaja realized his father mistake became a devotee of Lakshmi, pleased to his devotion Lakshmi herself incarnated as Tulasi, later Tulasi fell in deep love with Lord Krsna for which they got married, in order to keep their relation for ever Lord Krsna converted himself as Salagrava ( saligram ) & Tulasi as river Gandaki, even today salagrava are available in gandaki only, later the Great Master Sri Shankaracharya who knew this story told to his disciples that when ever this stones are taken for the purpose of worship one should never worship those shila without tulasi, that is in order to keep the same relation of tulasi & Sri Krsna, he also further says the Tulasi which we use foe worship is hair of that Tulasi who converted into river Gandaki.

An Ammonite watch tower at Rujm Al-Malfouf in Amman

Fossil collectors have found Ammonite and Baculite fossils at Boulder Point on Hornby Island.

The Tobiads were a Jewish or Ammonite faction at the beginning of the Maccabean period.

Other languages in the Northwest Semitic Canaanite group include ; Phoenecian, Ugaritic, Amorite, Ammonite, Moabite and Edomite.

He was assassinated by two of his servants, one of whom was a son of an Ammonite woman and the other the offspring of a Moabite (); for God said: " Let the descendants of the two ungrateful families chastise the ungrateful Joash " ( Yalk., Ex.

Thus also we hear of individual proselytes who rose to positions of prominence in the Kingdom of Israel, as of Doeg the Edomite, Uriah the Hittite, Araunah the Jebusite, Zelek the Ammonite, Ithmah and Ebedmelech the Ethiopians.

The only wife mentioned by name is Naamah, who is described as the Ammonite.

The biblical designation Mount of Corruption, or in Hebrew Har HaMashchit ( I Kings 11: 7 – 8 ), derives from the idol worship there, begun by King Solomon building altars to the gods of his Moabite and Ammonite wives on the southern peak, " on the mountain which is before ( east of ) Jerusalem " ( Kings I 11: 17 ), just outside the limits of the holy city.

Ammonite is a civilian explosive, generally comprising a 20 / 80 mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate.

The Ammonite language is the extinct Canaanite language of the Ammonite people mentioned in the Bible, who used to live in modern-day Jordan, and after whom its capital Amman is named.

Ammonite is Nicola Griffith's first novel, published in 1992 ( ISBN 0-345-37891-1 ).

Ammonite is the story of Marghe Taishan, an employee of the sinister, monolithic ' Company ', sent to the planet GP ( pronounced ' Jeep ') as an anthropologist.

Formed somewhere between 191 Ma and 204 Ma, in what was then a shallow marine environment, the lower Lias is composed of Blue Lias, Black Ven Marls and Green Ammonite Beds.

The enemies of the Jews-Sanballat of Samaria, Tobiah the Ammonite, Geshem the Arab, and the men of Ashdod-plot to attack Jerusalem which necessitates the Jews working with weapons in their hands.

In 1789 George Dance invented an Ammonite Order, a variant of Ionic substituting volutes in the form of fossil ammonites for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London.

His mother was Naamah the Ammonite.

The Rabbis claim this was a divine punishment for Solomon having failed to follow three divine commands, and Solomon was forced to wander from city to city, until he eventually arrived in an Ammonite city where he was forced to work in the king's kitchens.

Ammonite fossils became less abundant during the latter part of the Mesozoic, with none surviving into the Cenozoic era.

* Ammonite maturity, pathology and old age By Dr. Neale Monks, from The Cephalopod Page.

Clarke continued to expand his collection of analogue synthesisers and in 1994 set up " 37B ", a recording studio built adjacent to his custom-made home, " Ammonite ", in Chertsey, Surrey.

* 1665 — In his book Micrographia Robert Hooke compares petrified wood to wood, concludes that petrified wood formed from wood soaked in mineral rich water, and argues fossils like Ammonite shells, were produced the same way, sparking debate over the organic origin of fossils and the possibility of extinction.

The Cretaceous shale which make up the surface of the breaks contain Ammonite fossils.

A Moby Dick of Ammonite fossils – one about across or larger – was identified by Shell Oil Company geologists engaged on a field survey in the Cow Creek area in the late 1950s.

Since it would take a crane to lift this monster, a heavy truck to haul it, and reasonably good roads to move it, this lost giant Ammonite fossil probably still awaits re-discovery on Cow Creek.

However, Ammonite differs significantly from other feminist science fiction novels that depict a matriarchy through depicting active social antagonisms between Jeep's female tribal groups, particularly Marghe's battle against the barbarian warrior Uaithne.

He had become king at fifteen.

The defeat and death of Adolf of Nassau at the hands of Albert of Habsburg also worked to the disadvantage of the English, for all the efforts to revive the anti-French coalition came to nothing when Philip made an alliance with the new king of the Romans.

Amadee may have owed this partly to his relationship with the king, but Othon, who at sixty seems still to have been a simple knight, merited his position solely by his own character and ability.

Dr. H. V. Hilprecht, Professor of Assyrian at the University of Pennsylvania, dreamed that a Babylonian priest, associated with the king Kurigalzu, ( 1300 B.C. ) escorted him to the treasure chamber of the temple of Bel, gave him six novel points of information about a certain broken relic, and corrected an error in its identification.

He was also at this time, although not so interwoven in high politics and the rackets as Torrio and Capone, the most powerful and most dangerous mob leader in the Chicago underworld, the roughneck king.

Bloch's Les Rois Thaumaturges ( 1924 ) looked at the long-standing folk belief that the king could cure scrofula by touch.

However, this was not successful, for according to Gregory of Tours, Amalaric pressured her to forsake her Roman Catholic faith and convert to Arian Christianity, at one point beating her until she bled ; she sent to her brother Childebert I, king of Paris a towel stained with her own blood.

After four years he decided to declare himself king, sleeping with his father's concubines, then raised a revolt at Hebron, the former capital.

* The single verse, 2 Samuel 18: 33, regarding David's grief at the loss of his son (" And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Seizing the youngest but only surviving of Saul's sons, Ish-bosheth, Abner set him up as king over Israel at Mahanaim, east of the Jordan.

David, who was accepted as king by Judah alone, was meanwhile reigning at Hebron, and for some time war was carried on between the two parties.

But Leotychidas was ultimately set aside as illegitimate, contemporary rumors representing him as the son of Alcibiades, and Agesilaus became king around 401 BC, at the age of about forty.

According to Xenophon, Agesilaus, in order to gain money for prosecuting the war, supported the satrap Ariobarzanes II in his revolt against Artaxerxes II in 364 BC ( Revolt of the Satraps ), and in 361 BC he went to Egypt at the head of a mercenary force to aid the king Nectanebo I and his regent Teos against Persia.

Her two children by Philip II, Philip, count of Clermont ( died 1234 ), and Mary, who married Philip I of Namur, were legitimized by the pope in 1201 at the request of the king.

Centuries later, the neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus mentioned in his archaeological records that Ishtar's worship in Agade was later superseded by that of the goddess Anunit, whose shrine was at Sippar — suggesting proximity of Sippar and Agade.

After the battle, according to a tradition reported by Paul the Deacon, to be granted the right to sit at his father's table, Alboin had to ask for the hospitality of a foreign king and have him donate his weapons, as was customary.

Ealdred supported Harold as king, but when Harold was defeated at the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred backed Edgar the Ætheling and then endorsed King William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy and a distant relative of King Edward's.

After the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred joined the group who tried to elevate Edgar the Ætheling, Edward the Exile's son, as king, but eventually he submitted to William the Conqueror at Berkhamsted.

He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont.

In 1889 Alexander's father, King Milan, unexpectedly abdicated and withdrew to private life, proclaiming Alexander king of Serbia under a regency until he should attain his majority at eighteen years of age.

Opposition to the union seemed to subside somewhat for a time upon the publication of Tsar Nicholas II's congratulations to the king on his engagement and of his acceptance to act as the principal witness at the wedding.

Alexander's father died on 8 July 1249 and he became king at the age of seven, inaugurated at Scone on 13 July 1249.

He enhanced this by bribing the German king Henry IV with 360, 000 gold pieces to attack the Normans in Italy, which forced the Normans to concentrate on their defenses at home in 1083 – 1084.