According to Gideon Shimona in his book, Community and conscience: the Jews in apartheid South Africa:

According to the Bible, the valley was the scene of a victory by the Israelites, led by Gideon, against the Midianites, the Amalekiltes, and the Children of the East, but was later the location at which the Israelites, led by King Saul, were defeated by the Philistines.

According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

According to the Book of Exodus, the Ark was built at the command of God, in accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

According to the Book of Exodus, God instructed Moses on Mount Sinai during his 40-day stay upon the mountain within the thick cloud and darkness where God was ( Ex.

According to Smith's account, and also according to the book's narrative, the Book of Mormon was originally written in otherwise unknown characters referred to as " reformed Egyptian " engraved on golden plates.

According to the Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, a bishop's responsibilities are

According to the Book of Ruth, the valley to the east is where Ruth of Moab gleaned the fields and returned to town with Naomi.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some light on the last phase in the history of the origin of the Book of Jeremiah, inasmuch as the translation into Greek was already under way before the work on the Hebrew book had come to an end ...

According to his record, Joseph Smith, Jr. translated the Book of Mormon by gift and power of God through the Urim and Thummim.

According to the Book of Jubilees, Ur Kasdim ( and Chaldea ) took their name from Ura and Kesed, descendants of Arpachshad.

According to William Loeffler, from The American Book of the Dog ( 1891 ), in the chapter on Dachshunds: " The origin of the Dachshund is in doubt, our best authorities disagreeing as to the beginning of the breed.

According to Arnaz himself, in his autobiography A Book ( 1976 ), the family owned three ranches, a palatial home, and a vacation mansion on a private island in Santiago Bay, Cuba.

According to Western scholars the older sections of the Book of Enoch ( mainly in the Book of the Watchers ) date from about 300 BC and the latest part ( Book of Parables ) probably was composed at the end of 1st century BC.

According to First Esdras, a non-canonical Greek translation of the Book of Ezra, he was also a high priest.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.

According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.

According to the CIA World Fact Book, Mestizo ( mixed Amerindian-Spanish-in local Spanish called Ladino ) and European made 59. 4 % of the population, and K ' iche 9. 1 %, Kaqchikel 8. 4 %, Mam 7. 9 %, Q ' eqchi 6. 3 %, other Mayan 8. 6 %, indigenous non-Mayan 0. 2 %, other 0. 1 %.

According to Book of Zhou and History of Northern Dynasties, Ashina was a branch of Xiongnus and according to Book of Sui and Tongdian, they were " mixed Barbarians " ( 雜胡 / 杂胡, Pinyin: zá hú, Wade-Giles: tsa hu ) from Pingliang.

According to John Gower in Book 7 of the Confessio Amantis, this plant was the herb of the fourth star of Nectanabus ' astrology, Capella.

According to the Book of the Dead, departed souls would undergo a literal journey to reach Heaven, along the way to which there could exist hazards and other entities attempting to deny the reaching of Heaven.

According to the Book of Hosea, he married the prostitute Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, at God's command.

According to the Biblical Book of Genesis, the Patriarch Abraham and his wife Sarah were half-siblings, both being children of Terah ( Ge 20: 12 ).

According to the Supreme Court Historical Society, 20 goose-quill pens, neatly crossed, are placed at the four counsel tables each day the U. S. Supreme Court is in session ; " most lawyers appear before the Court only once, and gladly take the quills home as souvenirs.

According to the Louisiana Historical Association, he named some African Americans to federal positions, such as Walter L. Cohen of New Orleans, Louisiana, whom he named comptroller of customs.

According to Mark Weber, associate editor of the IHR's Journal of Historical Review Director of the IHR, " If by the ' Holocaust ' you mean the political persecution of Jews, some scattered killings, if you mean a cruel thing that happened, no one denies that.

According to page 7 of the book Coraopolis, by Gia Tatone, Coraopolis Historical Society ( 2007 ), " The newspaper Frank Braden, Jr. uncovered was simply called the News and was published in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, on June 5, 1897.

According to the Connecticut Historical Society, the chapel was constructed in 1831 with funds from " benevolent ladies in Norwich, Hartford and New London " as a church for Mohegan and white residents of the reservation in Montville.

According to the Preston Historical Society, " Schools were built in “ districts ” to serve the local children, until two central schools, one on Poquetanuck and one in Preston City were built between 1938 and 1940.

According to town historians and several original newspaper articles that are displayed at the Desert Inn and Restaurant National Historical site, the town was originally named " Jackass Junction ".

According to the Seminole County Historical Society, it is believed that the name Iron City came about when a new well was being dug and hit a spot of iron ore.

According to the Rock Island County Historical Society, the first more permanently settled inhabitants of the Moline area are thought to be the Sauk and Meskwaki Indians, who founded the village of Saukenuk in 1720 along the Rock River not far from its confluence with the Mississippi.

According to the records of the Maryland Historical Trust, the “ Hamilton House ” was relocated from Lot 74 to Pennsylvania in the last quarter of the 20th Century.

Post House / Holloway House ( CE-384 ; 18th Century ): According to Maryland Historical Trust records, the " Post House " is a frame and log construction building, possibly from the 18th century.

According to the Ogemaw County Genealogical and Historical Society, West Branch was previously known as Logan's Mills in 1863.

According to Melvin Gimmestad's Historical Backgrounds of Mound, Minnesota, " Mound derived its name from the Indian mounds once found within the present-day limits.

According to the book Historical Sites of Warren County, the township was named after the Honorable Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, a minister and theologian of the Dutch Reformed Church who came to New Jersey in 1720.

According to the Ohio Historical Society, Logan had about 250 residents in 1825, and 600 by 1840.

According to the Ohio Historical Society, Zoar is an island of Old-World charm in east-central Ohio.

According to the National Register of Historical Places Mascot is home to historical site to a Georgian-style house built in 1838, the Chesterfield home which is located at the corner of Old Rutledge Pike and Mine Road.

According to the Mukilteo Historical Society, the town became the first settled by Europeans in 1858 and was the county seat of Snohomish County from 1861 when Snohomish County was created from Island County to 1867, when the city of Snohomish became the county seat.

According to the Institute for Historical Review, Leuchter subsequently took employment as a " telephone solicitor.

According to the Darien Historical Society, the name Darien was decided upon when the residents of the town could not agree on a name to replace Middlesex Parish, many families wanting it to be named after themselves.

According to church law, only the Pope had the power to depose a king. Historical depiction of Adolf ’ s death at the Battle of Göllheim, by Master Simon, Koblenz, 1829

According to Ethelbert Dudley Warfield's book The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798: An Historical Study, Breckinridge was the major author of the Kentucky Resolutions.

According to its original founding, the objectives of the organization are Historical, Educational, Benevolent, Memorial and Patriotic:

According to the Historical Jewish Press, The Palestine Post was established " as part of a Zionist-Jewish initiative ", and " Zionist institutions considered the newspaper one of the most effective means of exerting influence on the British authorities ".