The history supplies another instance of Jonadab’s subtlety and sagacity (compare 2 Samuel 13:3). He immediately gave the true explanat…

Jonadab. —The same subtle counsellor who had led Amnon into his sin, now at once divined how the case really stood and reassured t…

And Jonadab the son of Shimeah, David's brother
The same that advised Amnon to feign himself sick, to get Tamar sent …

Jonadab was as guilty of Ammon's death as of his sin; those who counsel us to do wickedly prove to be such false friends. Instead of loathing Absal…