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

And it happened [that] at that time Judah went down from his brothers and pitched his tent near a certain Adullamite, whose name [was] Hirah.

And Samson's wife was [given] to his companion who [was] his best man.

But Haman controlled himself and went to his house, and he sent [for] and brought his friends and Zeresh his wife.

And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends all that had happened to him. And his advisers and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, [is] {from the descendants of the Jews}, you will not prevail against him, but will certainly fall before him."

Many will seek favor before the generous, and everyone [is] the friend of a man of gifts.

Shimeah

Then Jonadab the son of Shimeah, the brother of David, responded and said, "My lord should not think that all the young men, the sons of the king, [are] dead, because only Amnon [is] dead. {Absalom was talking about it}, as it was being determined from the day he raped Tamar his sister.

So Jesse made Shammah pass [before Samuel], but he said, "Yahweh also has not chosen this one."

Subtil man

So Joab sent to Tekoa and took from there a wise woman, and he said to her, "Please pretend to mourn and put on garments of mourning. You should not anoint yourself [with] oil, and you must act like this woman who has been mourning over the dead for {a long time}.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other {wild animal} which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God indeed say, 'You shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?"

"For my people [are] foolish, they have not known me. They [are] foolish children, and they do not have insight. They [are] skillful at doing evil, and they do not know [how] to do good."

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written, "The one who catches the wise in their craftiness,"

This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but [is] earthly, unspiritual, demonic.