Jonadab [E,H,I,N,B] Bible Dictionaries

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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Jonadab:

=Jehon'adab. (1.) The son of Rechab, and founder of the Rechabites (q.v.), 2Ki 10:15; Jer 35:6, 10.

(2.) The son of Shimeah, David's brother (2Sa 13:3). He was "a very subtil man."

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Jonadab:

who gives liberally

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Jonadab:

jon'-a-dab.

Nave's Topical Bible

Jonadab: 1. Nephew of David

His complicity with Amnon in his rape of Tamar,

2Sa 13:3-5.

Comforts David upon the death of Amnon,

2Sa 13:32-35.

Jonadab: 2. Called also Jehonadab

A Rechabite and companion of Jehu,

2Ki 10:15-23.

His sons refuse to drink wine in obedience to his command,

Jer 35:5-10, 16-19.

See RECHABITES

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Jonadab:

(whom Jehovah impels).

(1.) 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).

(2.) SEE [JEHONADAB]. (Jeremiah 35:6; 35:8; 35:10; 35:14; 35:16; 35:18-19).

Jehonadab:

je-hon'-a-dab (yehonadhabh, either "Yahweh is noble" or "liberal," or "Yahweh has impelled") = Jonadab (yonadhabh, same meaning):

(1) Jehonadab in the Hebrew of 2Sa 13:5; but Jonadab in English Versions of the Bible, and in Hebrew and English Versions of the Bible of 13:3,12,35; son of Shimeah, King David's brother. He was friendly with Amnon his cousin, and is said to be "a very shrewd (the Revised Version (British and American) "subtle") man." He planned to get Tamar to wait upon Amnon. Two years after, when Absalom had murdered Amnon, and David had heard that all the king's sons were assassinated, Jehonadab assured him that only Amnon was killed; and his reassuring tone is justified (2Sa 13:35); possibly he knew of Absalom's intentions. Septuagint, Lucian, has "Jonathan" in 2Sa 13:3 ff; and in 2Sa 21:21 parallel 1Ch 20:7, there is mentioned a son of Shimei (=" Shimca," 1Ch 2:7 =" Shammah," 1Sa 16:9), whose name is Jonathan.

See JONATHAN, (4).

(2) Jehonadab in 2Ki 10:15,23; in Hebrew of Jer 35:8,14,16,18 = Jonadab in Jer 35:6,10,19, and English Versions of the Bible of 35:8,14,16,18, "son" of Rechab, of the Kenite clan (1Ch 2:55). Jehonadab is described in 2Ki 10 as an ally of Jehu in the olition of Baal-worship in Samaria. Jehu met him after slaying the son of Ahab (10:15); the second part of the verse should probably be translated "And he greeted him and said to him, Is thy heart upright (with me) as my heart is with thee? And Jehonadab answered, Yes. Then spake Jehu (so the Septuagint), If so, give me thy hand. In Jer 35 (where English Versions of the Bible has Jonadab throughout), he is called the "father" of the Rechabites, who derived from him their ordinances for their nomadic life and abstention from wine.

Written by David Francis Roberts

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