2 Samuel 13:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.

A friend

Proverbs 19:6

Shimeah

2 Samuel 13:32

1 Samuel 16:9

Subtil man

James 3:15

Bible References

A friend

Right about then, Judah left his brothers and went to live with an Adullamite man named Hirah.

and Samson's wife went to the best man at his wedding.

Haman restrained himself, went to his house, and sent for his friends and his wife Zeresh.

Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. His wise friends and his wife Zeresh told him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is one of the Jewish people, you won't prevail against him. Instead, you will surely fall before him."

Many curry favor of an official; everyone is a friend of the gift giver.

Shimeah

But David's brother Shimeah's son Jonadab reported, "Your majesty, don't assume they've killed all of the young men the king's sons only Amnon has died, since that was Absalom's intention from the day Amnon raped his sister Tamar.

Then Jesse brought Shammah, and he said, "Neither has the LORD chosen this one."

Subtil man

so he sent messengers to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, "Please play the role of a mourner, wear the clothes of a mourner, and refrain from using makeup. Act like a woman who's been in mourning for the dead for many days.

Now the Shining One was more clever than any animal of the field that the LORD God had made. He asked the woman, "Did God actually say, "You are not to eat from any tree of the garden'?"

"For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They're stupid children, they have no understanding. They're skilled at doing evil, but how to do good, they don't know."

For the wisdom of this world is nonsense in God's sight. For it is written, "He catches the wise with their own trickery,"

That kind of wisdom does not come from above. No, it is worldly, self-centered, and demonic.