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Absalom

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Absalom

In the Old Testament, the third and favourite son of King David. When defeated in a revolt against his father he fled on a mule, but caught his hair in a tree branch and was killed by Joab, one of David's officers.

Able, ambitious, and handsome, he prepared the way for revolt by cunningly cultivating the goodwill of the people. After four years he raised his standard at Hebron, and had such success that David fled to Mahanaim beyond Jordan. Absalom was aided by Ahithophel, but Hushai, David's friend, joined Absalom to defeat the plan of Ahithophel who, seeing his counsel ignored, hanged himself. Absalom was routed in the Forest of Ephraim and was slain, in spite of the king's order to ‘deal gently’ with him.



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Hereupon Dryden, at the suggestion, it is said, of the king, and with the purpose of securing Shaftesbury's conviction, put forth the First Part of 'Absalom and Achitophel,' a masterly satire of Shaftesbury, Monmouth, and their associates in the allegorical disguise of the (somewhat altered) Biblical story of David and Absalom.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
Had the hairs on the head of Absalom been as scarce as thine, he might have been living to this day.
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
Sometimes, the worthy gentleman would reprove my mother for being over-indulgent to her sons, with a reference to old Eli, or David and Absalom, which was particularly galling to her feelings; and, very highly as she respected him, and all his sayings, I once heard her exclaim, 'I wish to goodness he had a son himself
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