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Hushai and Absalom
David sent his old friend Hushai back to Absalom, in order that he might counteract the counsel of Ahitophel ( 2 Sam.
In John Dryden's satire, Absalom and Achitophel, he is " Hushai ," the friend of David in distress.
When David's renowned advisor, Achitophel ( Achitophel in the Vulgate ) joins Absalom's rebellion, another advisor, Hushai, plots with David to pretend to defect and give Absalom advice that plays into David's hands.
The result was that Absalom takes the advice of the double agent Hushai over the good advice of Achitophel, who realizing that the rebellion is doomed to failure, goes home and hangs himself.
He is best known by his Azaria and Hushai ( 1682 ), a reply to John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel.
Dryden's ‘ Absalom and Achitophel ’ appeared in November 1681, and among the answers to it was Pordage's ‘ Azaria and Hushai, a Poem ,’ 1682.
Hushai persuades Absalom to take him into his confidence, and, in the council held shortly afterwards in regard to the measures to be taken against David, he obtains a delay which secures the safety of the king.

Hushai and was
In this piece Azaria was the Duke of Monmouth, Amazia the king, Hushai Shaftesbury, and Shimei Dryden.
Hushai ( hus '- sha-i ) or Chusai was a friend of David and a spy according to the Hebrew Bible.
Hushai was an Archite, that is, a native of Archi, a place south of the portion of Ephraim, near Bethel ( Joshua 16: 2 ).

Hushai and on
Just after David has heard of the treason of his counselor Ahitophel, he is met, on his way up the Mount of Olives by Hushai, whose garments are rent and whose head is covered with dust.

Hushai and .
However, he took the precaution of instructing a servant, Hushai, to infiltrate Absalom's court and subvert it.

convinced and Absalom
While David was in this state his fourth son Adonijah, heir apparent to the throne after the death of his elder brothers Amnon and Absalom, acted to have himself declared king, But Bathsheba, a wife of David and Solomon's mother, along with the prophet Nathan convinced David to proclaim Solomon king.
Dryden was a convinced Tory and had already satirised Shaftesbury and other Whigs in his poem Absalom and Achitophel ( 1681 ).

convinced and ignore
Only Boomhauer was with Hank, and, unable to persuade the proprietor to ignore Hank's purchase, convinced him to put the tattoo in a less conspicuous place, the back of Hank's head ; Hank had completely forgotten that night, but was reminded of it while undergoing treatment for head lice in the present ( an affliction caused by Bill trying to meet the school district's head lice lady ).
In addition, “ parents are also convinced that the more students listened to the lectures, the better they would score on the finals .” Though the Western educational system also features exams, standardized testing, and lectures, the Chinese exam system leads students and teachers to ignore the importance of practical activities, such as group work, because these skills will not be tested on the exams.

convinced and advice
This convinced Louis that the war was already won and on the advice of de Louvois he began negotiations to reach a treaty as favourable as possible for France.
Anne also became ever more reliant on the advice of Harley, who, convinced that the duumvirate's policy of appeasing the Whig Junto was unnecessary, had set himself up as alternative source of advice to a sympathetic Queen.
Days after the 9 / 11 attacks, Ailes gave President George W. Bush political advice indicating that the American public would be patient as long as they were convinced that Bush was using the harshest measures possible.
As this was contrary to Napoleon ’ s orders " you will be the sword against the Prussian ’ s back driving them through Wavre and join me here ", Grouchy decided not to take the advice, convinced as he was that the Prussians were positively known to be at Wavre in the morning, and that any other movement than ordered by Napoleon to " March on Wavre and draw closer to the main army " ( order send by Napoleon around 10 p. m .) would have been a disobeying of given orders.
The Chinese Confucian thinker Mencius, who 2300 years ago sought to give advice to the ruthless political leaders of the warring states period, was convinced that the mind played a mediating role between the " lesser self " ( the physiological self ) and the " greater self " ( the moral self ) and that getting the priorities right between these two would lead to sage-hood.
" She later convinced him to take her for a ride in the Southern Cross and went on to become a record-setting aviatrix, following his example instead of his advice (" Don't attempt to break men's records – and don't fly at night ", he told her in 1928 and remembered wryly later ).
Artemisia convinced Xerxes to retreat back to Asia Minor after the defeat at Salamis, contrary to the advice of Mardonius, who wanted Xerxes to stay.
During World War I, Hussein initially remained allied with the Ottomans but began secret negotiations with the British on the advice of his son, Abdullah, who had served in the Ottoman parliament up to 1914 and was convinced that it was necessary to separate from the increasingly nationalistic Ottoman administration.
( 4 ) The President of the Republic has also one very desired privilege. He can have mercy on any criminal and if the President is convinced of his innocence without the advice and on personal ground, he / she may grace the criminal liberty and also a emptied police criminal file of that person. He may therefore only once during his term grace anyone of illegal acts and thus can free that person of any charges even of 1st degree of murder but he should prove the innocence of that individual.
In disbelief, Annabella sought medical advice as she had become convinced her husband had gone mad.
So far the Knights were not convinced to take the trouble of fighting the Prussians, and on the advice of the first Prussian bishop Christian of Oliva, in 1228 Konrad founded the loyal Order of Dobrzyń instead, calling for another Prussian Crusade-and was again defeated.
Both Ōkubo Toshimichi and Itō Hirobumi called for the advice of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck ; his advice convinced the Meiji leaders of the necessity for a militarily and economically strong Japan and nationalism in order to preserve independence.
Ben, as uninformed as the rest of the family as to what crime his father is accused of yet convinced of his innocence, decides to ask Multivac for advice.
Philip was easily convinced and followed Demetrius ' advice.
To which extent his advice affected the course of the battle is debatable, since his first conference with Stavka did not occur until late May, while Zhukov had been advocating the same thing since March, and had all but convinced Stalin by mid-April.
However, despite the advice of Ras Wolde Leul, one of Iyoas ' senior counselors, envoys from Sennar convinced Badi to return to Sennar where he was quietly murdered after an imprisonment of two years.
Though Featherston acted too rashly for Potter's comfort ( he was convinced that had his advice been acted on the invasion would have been a strategic as well as tactical surprise ) Potter's competent organization of pro-Confederate saboteurs helped George Patton's army reach Lake Erie by August.

convinced and attack
During World War II, a US submarine, the USS Puffer ( SS-268 ), came under several hours of depth charge attack by a Japanese surface vessel until the ship became convinced the submarine had somehow escaped.
Young and Allen eventually decided to collaborate on a book intended to be an attack on organized religion, as Young had convinced Allen to become a Deist.
Martok believed that the Empire should attack right away, and convinced the Federation and Romulans to attack as well.
Captain Picard, suspecting this, convinced pro-Federation leader Gowron to attack Duras ' forces in order to draw Romulan reinforcements out of hiding ; when the Romulans attempted to enter the fray, they were revealed by a Federation tachyon blockade, and the Duras family, exposed as traitors, lost all support.
German reconnaissance aircraft photographed the site and the faked damage by Jasper Maskelyne convinced Chapman's controllers that the attack had been successful.
Over a period of a few years, many in the US defense community became increasingly convinced of the invincibility of the United States to a nuclear attack.
He had advised Hitler not to attack Russia in 1941 as he was convinced that " Operation Barbarossa " would be a failure.
Zaharoff convinced Venizelos to attack but, after some impressive initial success, the Greek army was eventually driven back.
Although information obtained well after the fact supported Captain Herrick's statements about the inaccuracy of the later torpedo reports as well as the 1981 Herrick / Scheer conclusion about the inaccuracy of the first, indicating that there was no North Vietnamese attack that night, at the time U. S. authorities and all of the Maddox crew stated that they were convinced that an attack had taken place.
During this period Vliet suffered severe anxiety attacks that made him convinced that he was having a heart attack, probably exacerbated by his heavy LSD use and the fact that his father died of heart failure a few years earlier.
Luns convinced American leaders that it undermined the credibility in Western Europe of their nuclear strategy by neglecting European fears of a change of strategy which would leave Europe unprotected in case of a Soviet nuclear attack.
The castle remained a key Parisian fortress, but was successfully seized by the Burgundians in 1464, when they convinced royal troops to surrender: once taken, this allowed their faction to make a surprise attack into Paris, almost resulting in the capture of the king.
After its premiere on 3 March 1875, Bizet was convinced that the work was a failure ; he died of a heart attack three months later, unaware that it would prove a spectacular and enduring success.
However, his views on international control and on employing the threat of atomic attack changed in the face of the Berlin blockade, the Soviet detonation of an A-bomb, and the advent of the Korean war, which convinced him that the communist bloc was pursuing expansionist policies.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, government officials convinced the army to take control of Camp Peay and turn it into a federal induction center, renamed Camp Forrest.
The immediate problem with McClellan's war strategy was that he was convinced the Confederates were ready to attack him with overwhelming numbers.
Louis was soon convinced by his brother Charles of Anjou to attack Tunis first, which would give them a strong base for attacking Egypt, the focus of Louis ' previous crusade as well as the Fifth Crusade before him, both of which had been defeated there.
He also attacks Louis ' brother Charles, whom he calls the caps e guitz ( head and guide ) of the infidels, because he convinced Louis to attack Tunis and not the Holy Land, and he immediately negotiated a peace with the Muslims after Louis ' death.
With about a minute left in the round, Chávez hit Taylor squarely with several hard punches, and Taylor responded by mockingly feigning weakness, but Chávez was not convinced by Taylor's bravado and stayed on the attack, continuing to hit Taylor with well-placed shots.
So Lauer convinced the archduke to convert the enterprise into a direct attack on Munich.
He became convinced that Melas would not attack, and further, that the Austrian was about to retreat.

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