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Jonadab
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=Jehon’adab.
Jonadab (1)
#The son of Rechab, and founder of the Rechabites (q.v.), 2 Kings 10:15; Jer. 35:6, 10.
Jonadab (2)
#The son of Shimeah, David’s brother (2 Sam. 13:3). He was “a very subtil man.”
Also from Smith's (1884) +−
(whom Jehovah impels).
Son of Shimeah and nephew of David. (B.C. 1033.) He is described as “very subtle.” (2 Samuel 13:3) His age naturally made him the friend of his cousin Amnon, heir to the throne. (2 Samuel 13:3) He gave him the fatal advice for ensnaring his sister Tamar. ch (2 Samuel 13:5,6) Again, when, in a later stage of the same tragedy, Amnon was murdered by Absalom, and the exaggerated report reached David that all the princes were slaughtered, Jonadab was already aware of the real state of the case. (2 Samuel 13:32,33) (Jeremiah 35:6,8,10,14,16,18,19) [Jehonadab]
In the Bible
11
Verses where Jonadab is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- 2 Samuel 13:3
Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,
- 2 Samuel 13:5
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
- 2 Samuel 13:32
But Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah, spoke up: “My lord must not think they have killed all the sons of the king, for only Amnon is dead. In fact, Absalom has planned this since the day Amnon violated his sister Tamar.
- 2 Samuel 13:35
So Jonadab said to the king, “Look, the sons of the king have arrived! It is just as your servant said.”
- Jeremiah 35:6
“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.
- Jeremiah 35:8
And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.
+5 more verses naming Jonadab.
Scripture on Jonadab
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Entries that reference Jonadab
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Jonadab references
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Sources · Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869) · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
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