The word subtil appears only three times in the Bible. Once in Genesis with satan's temptation of Eve in the guise of a serpent.
Once in Proverbs connected with a harlot description of a woman.
And, once in Samuel, in a description of Jonadab.
Jonadab is someone I doubt most people even notice, and yet if one mentions Bathsheba and Absolom, they will recognize those stories and characters, and yet at the heart of both of these intertwined stories is Jonadab, nephew of King David, by his brother Shimeah.
In the events of this spiral out of control, there is David having sex with one of the "generals" of his army's wife, Bathsheba, and having him murdered in battle to cover up her being pregnant.
Bathsheba was a girl who was the granddaughter of David's most trusted adviser. Her father was armor bearer for Joab, David's nephew, who commanded the Army of Israel.
It was the Bathsheba event that God through the Prophet Nathan told David that God would cause an upheaval as punishment and someone else would be having sex with his wives, and that turned out to be Absolom in treason.
In knowing the base of this, we come to Jonadab, who was a subtil man, who just so happened to notice another of David's sons named Amnon, looking lovesick over another of David's children, the sister of Absolom, Tamar.
Jonadab, while no reasons were given, started the entire series of events into play, and is never mentioned again in the Bible. For what this man did, he should have been hung, but no apparent retaliation ever was sentenced to him.
So Jonadab, convinces Amnon to pretend he is sick, and when the King would hear of it, that Jonadab would then have Amnon ask that Tamar come to him to nurse him.
The events unfolded exactly as Jonadab counseled, and Tamar refused to have sex with Amnon, and told him to just ask the King and she would be his wife.........but Amnon raped her, and then hated her and threw her out of the house.
Tamar tore her clothes and threw dirt on her head, and wailed in the streets. King David was furious over it all, but did nothing. Absolom said nothing, but for 2 years plotted revenge and finally got David to let the princes come to a sheep shearing party, and then he had Amnon executed.
David thought by rumor that Absolom had killed all the boys, but Jonadab appears and says, it was just Amnon, as Absolom has "had this on his lips for two years".
Jonadab was part of the entire intrigue, and David at the end was comforted in what apparently Absolom did in justice prevailing. It all though laid the framework for Absolom being a revolutionary and attempting to murder his own father for the throne, as it was Absolom's throne in birth, but God chose Solomon by Bathsheba.
That brings the examination to Jonadab, nephew of the King, as sort of Richard III, but he never tried to overthrow David to get anything, but had his humor and revenge by getting the two favored sons killed off in Amnon and Absolom.
In reality, that is what thee entire episode is about is regicide, as the events of Bathsheba killed off the top 3 sons who would be on the throne in succession. Solomon killed the last one while on the throne, when this idiot who tried to usurp was abandoned, and then Adonijah tried to get Bathsheba to let him sex a last concubine of David before he died, the Shunammite woman, Abishag........which of course would mean Adonijah was screwing the King's wife, and meant he should be king.......which Solomon recognized and promptly killed the treacherous brother for treason.
Yet with all the death, the crafty Jonadab, never lost his head or had any person's ire apparently, as he sort of played a game of chess where the King was not checked, but the King's sons were mated or killed.
Jonadab in reality, was a form of satan like Judas was. He was a bastard of his father the devil in spirit. The worst of this was Tamar, who was a beautiful Princess, who was chaste, and an innocent, but in doing what was correct, she was raped, thrown out in the street, and no one would touch her after that.
Jonadab appears much like satan in Job, where that evil is used by God to accomplish things. The same type of lying spirit which enticed Ahab to die at Ramoth Gilead. There is a great deal taking place in all of this in characters and those who seem to get away with things and those who do not.
Joab, who this blog has written of is executed by Solomon on David's orders after David dies, but if it was not for Joab, David would have never had a Kingdom at peace, because the generals of Abner and Amasa probably would have revolted. Yet Joab was loyal always to his uncle David.
Jonadab is not recorded in being executed for causing the deaths of two of the King's sons and the rape of his daughter. His actions caused Absolom to revolt as certainly as David bedding Bathsheba, yet nothing is stated than he is a crafty man.
The Bible at times never does make sense, because no one can really ever understand how God's mind works. A person reaches out to stead the Ark of the Lord and God kills him immediately. David eats the shewbread and God does not care.
I do not believe that as the Bible says no one can counsel God and that no one can ever understand God, as He does things His Way and it does work out right, but when I see Tamar doing things right............well God should in reckoning have like had Jonadab get trapped like in a cattle yoke in a barn, and rats finding him to gnaw off his balls all night.
God is really great in the things He comes up with, but sometimes He just has his reasons things do not get done...........is like the rats were not doing anything and all that fat content would have been a good meal for them.
Am sure Tamar would have enjoyed the story..........and maybe his dick would get plugged so he could not piss, and the bladder would explode after a week of agony, and his guts would spill out like Judas.
That is a good reckoning.
I have not inquired what took place with Jonadab, but he is someone that if I had the million, I would make a movie about him........Lawrence Olivier would make a great Jonadab, as he did Richard III. I could cast Lame Cherry donors for screen things, maybe have them wear LC clothing for cameos.
You know Bruce Willis would really fit as Jonadab too........give him some great acting reach.
Maybe with license I could have the rats gnaw off his balls, as Tamar would accidentally spill a gallon of hot pepper juice up his arse.
I know too much overdoing, unless it was you who got raped
satan in subtil does not get his until Gehenna. Perhaps Jonadab in subtil will get his then too, as God takes His time repaying subtil.
nuff said
agtG 283Y
II Samuel 13
