The Book of Haggai was written in 520 BCE some 18 years after Cyrus had conquered Babylon and issued a decree in 538 BCE allowing the captive Jews to return to Judea.

Somewhere, perhaps on the southeastern shore, would be the cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis which were said to have been destroyed in the time of Abraham: Sodom and Gomorra ( Genesis 18 ) and the three other " Cities of the Plain "-Admah, Zeboim and Zoar ( Deuteronomy 29: 23 ).

A few parts of the Book of Ezra ( 4: 8 to 6: 18 and 7: 12: 12-26 ) were written in Aramaic, and the majority in Hebrew, Ezra himself being skilled in both languages.

The World Fact Book also reports that the military service age and obligation is 18 – 25 years of age for selective compulsory military service ; 16 years of age or younger with parental consent, for voluntary service ( 2009 ).

Book of Sui reported that when Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei overthrew Juqu Mujian's Northern Liang on October 18, 439, Ashina's 500 families fled to the Rouran Khaganate.

The proverb " pride goes before a fall " ( from the biblical Book of Proverbs, 16: 18 ) is thought to summate the modern use of hubris.

Philippians ( Book 4, Chapter 18 )

Josephus ' Antiquities of the Jews, written around 93 – 94 AD, includes two references to Jesus in Books 18 and 20 and a reference to John the Baptist in Book 18.

Almost all modern scholars consider the reference in Book 18, Chapter 5, 2 of the Antiquities to the imprisonment and death of John the Baptist to also be authentic.

Scholars have differing opinions on the total or partial authenticity of the reference in Book 18, Chapter 3, 3 of the Antiquities to the execution of Jesus by Pontius Pilate, a passage usually called the Testimonium Flavianum.

In the Antiquities of the Jews ( Book 18, Chapter 5, 2 ) Josephus refers to the imprisonment and death of John the Baptist by order of Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee and Perea.

The Testimonium Flavianum ( meaning the testimony of Flavius < nowiki ></ nowiki >) is the name given to the passage found in Book 18, Chapter 3, 3 of the Antiquities in which Josephus describes the condemnation and crucifixion of Jesus at the hands of the Roman authorities.

The three references found in Book 18 and

The Book of Acts portrays the disciples of John as eventually merging into the followers of Jesus ( Acts 18: 24-19: 6 ), a development not reported by the Gospels except for the early case of Andrew, Simon Peter's brother ( John 1: 35-42 ).

Other early titles were " The Book of Moses " ( Ezra 6: 18 ; Neh.

She was honored by The Washington Center for the Book for her distinguished body of work with the Maxine Cushing Gray Fellowship for Writers on October 18, 2006.

The Book of Deuteronomy ( 18: 9 – 12 ) explicitly warns the Israelites against engaging in the Canaanite practice of divination from the dead: Though Mosaic Law prescribed the death penalty to practitioners of necromancy ( Leviticus 20: 27 ), this warning was not always heeded.

* The father of the Ephraimite chief Elishama, at the time of the Exodus ( Book of Numbers 1: 10 ; 2: 18 ; 7: 48, 53 ).

Diodoris also states ( Book I. 18 ) that Osiris first recruited the nine Muses, along with the Satyrs or male dancers, while passing through Ethiopia, before embarking on a tour of all Asia and Europe, teaching the arts of cultivation wherever he went.

* McFarlane was inducted into the Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame, on June 18, 2011 at the Joe Shuster Awards in Calgary.

* Nissus of Dulichium, son of Aretias, father of Amphinomus, in Book 18 of Homer's Odyssey

Book V of Euclid's Elements has 18 definitions, all of which relate to ratios.

* Biblical Sex Row Over Explicit Illustrated Book of Genesis, The Telegraph, October 18, 2009

Pope: " Thus on a roe the well-breath'd beagle flies, And rends his hide fresh-bleeding with the dart " The Iliad of Homer ( 1715 – 20 ) Book XV: 697 – 8

The other Strife is presumably she who appears in Homer's Iliad Book IV ; equated with Enyo as sister of Ares and so presumably daughter of Zeus and Hera:

When Heracles took the cattle of Geryon, he shot Hera in the right breast with a triple-barbed arrow: the wound was incurable and left her in constant pain, as Dione tells Aphrodite in the Iliad, Book V. Afterwards, Hera sent a gadfly to bite the cattle, irritate them and scatter them.

The revisionists would indicate passages apparently influenced by the Iliad in Táin Bó Cuailnge, and the existence of Togail Troí, an Irish adaptation of Dares Phrygius ' De excidio Troiae historia, found in the Book of Leinster, and note that the material culture of the stories is generally closer to the time of the stories ' composition than to the distant past.

The city of Larissa is mentioned on Book II of Iliad by Homer in this verse:

The names, originally spelled Phobus and Deimus respectively, were suggested by Henry Madan ( 1838 – 1901 ), Science Master of Eton, based on Book XV of the Iliad, in which the god Ares summons Dread ( Deimos ) and Fear ( Phobos ).

This specific use of cedar is mentioned in The Iliad ( Book 24 ), referring to the cedar-roofed or lined storage chamber where Priam goes to fetch treasures to be used as ransom.

* Homer, Iliad, Book III ; Odyssey, Books IV, and XXIII.

Teichoscopy or teichoscopia, meaning " viewing from the walls ," is a famous passage in the Iliad that takes place in Book 3, lines 121-244.

The Greek poet Homer extolled the wealth of Thebes in the Iliad, Book 9 ( c. 8th Century BC ): "... in Egyptian Thebes the heaps of precious ingots gleam, the hundred-gated Thebes.

According to a legend, when Phidias was asked what inspired him — whether he climbed Mount Olympus to see Zeus, or whether Zeus came down from Olympus so that Pheidias could see him — the artist answered that he portrayed Zeus according to Book One, verses 528 – 530 of Homer's Iliad:

In Homer's Iliad ( Book 19 ) she is called eldest daughter of Zeus with no mother mentioned.

They appear in Homer's Iliad in Book 9 as the lame and wrinkled daughters of Zeus ( no mother named and no number given ) who follow after Zeus ' exiled daughter Até (' Folly ') as healers but who cannot keep up with the fast-running Até.

Book 16 of the Iliad tells us that Achilles had a third horse, Pedasos ( maybe " Jumper ", maybe " Captive "), which was yoked as a " trace horse ", along with Xanthus and Balios.

According to the Iliad Helen was still unaware of her brothers ' deaths in the tenth year of the Trojan War, since during Book III she looks for them among the Greek host and is surprised not to see them.

According to Book 1 of the Iliad, when Agamemnon was compelled by Apollo to give up his own woman, Chryseis, he demanded Briseis as compensation.

The Odyssey, Book XVI, in The Iliad & The Odyssey.

In Book XVII of The Iliad, Apollo disguises himself as Mentes to encourage Hector to fight Menelaus, (" Hector, now you're going after something you'll not catch, chasing the horses of warrior Achilles, descendant of Aeacus.

In Book 6 of the Iliad, Andromache relates that Achilles killed Eëtion and his seven sons in a raid on Thebe, but in Book 17, Podes appears and is killed by Menelaus.

He scolded Hector in the Iliad ( Book 5, lines 471 – 492 ) claiming that he left all the hard fighting to the allies of Troy and not to the Trojans themselves, and made a point of saying that the Lycians had no reason to fight the Greeks, or no real reason to hate them, but because he was a faithful ally to Troy he would do so and fight his best anyway.

The games are described in Book 23 of the Iliad, one of the earliest references to Greek sports.

He is also mentioned in Homer's Iliad ; Book 2 describes his exile on the island of Lemnos, his wound by snake-bite, and his eventual recall by the Greeks.

( Iliad, Book VI. 132-37 )