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His striking appearance (recall 14:25: \u201cThere was none in Israel as handsome as Absalom\u201d) combined with his sense of public displeasure with his father\u2019s austere rule, made a favorable impression on visitors to Jerusalem and \u201che stole the hearts of the men of Israel\u201d (6).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At a particular time designated \u201cafter forty years\u201d (7; the exegetes regard it as the fortieth year since the initiation of the monarchy under Saul, a point at which Absalom may have thought that David had outlived his royal usefulness), Absalom, who had already demonstrated an aptitude for conspiracy (see chapter 13), asked and received permission to relocate to Hebron where he successfully launched a rebellion against his father with the motto \u201cAbsalom rules in Hebron\u201d (10). Surely it was not lost on him that Hebron was both the capital of his tribe, Judah, as well as the place from which his father had launched his own kingdom in defiance of Saul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David appreciated the lethal threat Absalom posed not only to his reign but to his person and promptly took flight, taking exaggerated care to be accompanied by those who could be useful to him in exile and not to encumber himself with those who could provide no practical service. He also took a page, as it were, from Absalom\u2019s playbook, leaving behind a potential fifth column in the persons of the priests, Zadok and Abiathar, whom he charged with collecting intelligence on his opponents and dispatching it to him via their sons, Ahimaaz and Jonathan, and Hushai, the \u201cfirst friend\u201d (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rei`eh David<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 37), who was specifically charged with thwarting the counsel of Ahithophel of Gilo, a particular nemesis (and, according to a medieval Jewish folk tradition, the teacher of Socrates).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the prophet Isaiah was later to remark: \u201cI reared children and brought them up\u2014 And they have rebelled against Me!\u201d (Isaiah 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