According to the Bible, Absalom or Avshalom () was the third son of David, King of Israel with Maachah, daughter of Talmai, King of Geshur.

* Throughout Robertson Davies's The Manticore a comparison is repeatedly made between the protagonist's problematic relations with his father and those of between the Biblical Absalom and King David.

* 1121 – Battle of Didgori: the Georgian army under King David IV wins a decisive victory over the famous Seljuk commander Ilghazi.

In the 1960 film David and Goliath, Abner ( Massimo Serato ) tries to murder David ( Ivica Pajer ) when he returns in triumph after killing Goliath ; however, Abner is slain by King Saul ( Orson Welles ).

* Oram, Richard, David I: The King Who Made Scotland.

At the Mongol camp near Kars Andrew had met a certain David, who in December 1248 appeared at the court of King Louis IX of France in Cyprus.

At the beginning of his reign, King David removed the Ark from Kirjath-jearim amid great rejoicing.

When Abiathar was dismissed from the priesthood by King Solomon for having taken part in Adonijah's conspiracy against David, his life was spared because he had formerly borne the Ark ( 1 Kings 2: 26 ).

After several hundred years of Tabernacle worship without instrumental music, King David introduced musical instruments into Temple worship based upon a commandment from God.

Rav was a descendant of a distinguished Babylonian family which claimed to trace its origin to Shimei, brother of King David ( Sanhedrin 5a ; Ketubot 62b ).

Another version says he was Co-Pontiff with Zadok during King David.

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 ".

Archaeological confirmation of Bethlehem as an Israelite city was uncovered in 2012 at the archaeological dig at the City of David in the form of a bulla ( seal impression in dried clay ) in ancient Hebrew script that reads " From the town of Bethlehem to the King ," indicating that it was used to seal the string closing a shipment of grain, wine, or other goods sent as a tax payment in the 8th or 7th century BCE.

# The beginning of 2 Chronicles ( chapters 1 – 9 ) is a history of the reign of King Solomon, son of David.

David is then anointed King of all Israel.

By both chance and providence, Ruth, a destitute, widowed and childless outsider, becomes an ancestress of King David ( Ruth 4: 13 ).

Solomon ’ s name appears in Proverbs 1: 1, " The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, King of Israel.

King David performed a census that produced disastrous results ( in and ).

God used Satan to try King David (; ), who then numbered the people out of pride.

Examples cited are Ruth and her mother-in-law Naomi, Daniel and the court official Ashpenaz, and, most famously, David and King Saul's son Jonathan.

In the Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming lists Moses, Jesus, and King Arthur as examples of the " heroic monomyth ", calling the Christ story " a particularly complete example of the heroic monomyth ".

Jews believe that a descendant of King David will one day appear to restore the Kingdom of Israel and usher in an era of peace, prosperity, and spiritual understanding for Israel and all the nations of the world.

The Christian view of Jesus as Messiah goes beyond such claims and is the fulfillment and union of three anointed offices ; a prophet like Moses who delivers God's commands and covenant and frees people from bondage, a High Priest in the order of Melchizedek overshadowing the Levite priesthood and a king like King David ruling over Jews, and like God ruling over the whole world and coming from the line of David.

David remarked to his friends who visited his studio " this is what is killing me " such was his determination to complete the work, but by October it must have already been well advanced, as his former pupil Gros wrote to congratulate him, having heard reports of the painting's merits.

: Reno in congressional testimony stated that she authorized the FBI assault on the Branch Davidians because of reports that Militia groups were enroute to Waco during the standoff " either to help Davidian leader David Koresh or to attack him.

The Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau ( LNPIB ) was a UK-based society formed in 1962 by Norman Collins, R. S. R. Fitter, David James, MP, Peter Scott and Constance Whyte " to study Loch Ness to identify the creature known as the Loch Ness Monster or determine the causes of reports of it.

In 1997, the acute employment problem at St Helena was brought to the attention of the British public following reports in the tabloid press of a " riot " following an article in the Financial Times describing how the Governor, David Smallman ( 1995 – 1999 ), was jostled by a small crowd who believed he and the Foreign Office had rejected plans to build an airport on the island.

In the 1860s, David Livingstone's reports of atrocities within the Arab slave trade in Africa stirred up the interest of the British public, reviving the flagging abolitionist movement.

* The British Medical Journal 1870 – 1871 editions have numerous reports of Stanley's progress in attempting to track down David Livingston.

The Name / Finger protocol, written by David Zimmerman, is based on Request for comments document RFC 742 ( December 1977 ) as an interface to the < tt > name </ tt > and < tt > finger </ tt > programs that provide status reports on a particular computer system or a particular person at network sites.

I Samuel refers to the Cave of Adullam, and reports that David, when he had been expelled from the court of King Saul, there gathered together " every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented " ().

The Talmud reports that the Shekinah is what caused prophets to prophesy and King David to compose his Psalms.

" The pamphlet, declined for publication with the official Scott expedition reports, commented on the frequency of sexual activity, auto-erotic behaviour, and seemingly aberrant behaviour of young unpaired males and females, including necrophilia, sexual coercion, sexual and physical abuse of chicks and homosexual behaviour ," states the analysis written by Douglas Russell and colleagues William Sladen and David Ainley.

Political philosopher David Crocker reports that " the statue, at least, is still an emblem of the contested past: " each day, the Left puts a red kerchief on the neck of the statue, and someone from the Right comes later to take it off.

" She was also interviewed that year by David Irving who reports that she said that she would then still welcome Hitler at the door, and that she did discuss with Hitler the saving of some individuals.

However, biographer David Rees reports in Minstrel in the Gallery that Anderson had never intended to replace the ' classic ' Tull lineup with the musicians who recorded A, but was forced by Chrysalis Records which had decided to release his ' solo ' album under the name Jethro Tull.

Law professor David D. Cole reports that President Wilson ’ s " federal government consistently targeted alien radicals, deporting them ... for their speech or associations, making little effort to distinguish true threats from ideological dissidents .”

Nevertheless Gordon ( 1987 ) reports that Charles Turner, David Frohnmayer and other law enforcement officials, who had surveyed affidavits never released publicly and who listened to hundreds of hours of tape recordings, insinuated to him that Osho was guilty of more crimes than those for which he was eventually prosecuted.

However, certain reports have been narrated by David Ogden Stiers and Peter Berkrot.

Home Secretary David Maxwell Fyfe, after reading the Home Office psychiatric reports, refused to request clemency from the Queen, despite a petition signed by over 200 of his fellow MPs.

Yallop drew this conclusion from an interview in March 1971 with Dr. David Haler, the pathologist who carried out the autopsy on Miles, who Yallop reports estimated the head wound was inflicted by a bullet of between. 32 and. 38 calibre fired from between six to nine feet away.

Historian David Thelen reports that after the St. Paul speech La Follette " became the main focus of official and vigilante campaigns to suppress antiwar spokesmen.

It also reports that when Nabal rejected David's request, one of the shepherds, recognized that Nabal could not be approached because of his abrasive nature and therefore informed Nabal's wife ( named Abigail ) of the situation along with a very positive account of the protection that David and his men had provided.

Another Muslim author reports a conversation that took place in the 8th century between a follower of Islam and the exilarch, in which the latter boasted ; " Seventy generations have passed between me and King David, yet the Jews still recognize the prerogatives of my royal descent, and regard it as their duty to protect me ; but you have slain the grandson < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > of your prophet after one single generation " p. 125.

Kizza reports that the headers on the post were probably forged by Melissa's author, David L. Smith.

David Ian, who will produce the musical, has been receiving the stage rights from Costner, a producer of the film as well as its star, and Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote it, reports Baz Bamigboye.

The Magen David Adom blood drive came under criticism after reports that blood from Ethiopian donors had been discarded.