Bible Person
Meaning: who gives liberally · Male · 9 cross references
Jonadab son of Rechab is the figure associated with the Rechabite tradition of disciplined abstinence and simple living. He also briefly appears in Jehu's purge of Baal worship, connecting him with zeal against idolatry. First appears in 2 Kgs 10:15.1
AI summary: Jonadab matters because the cross references present him as the remembered source of a family discipline that outlasts kingdoms. His alliance with Jehu links him to a moment of anti-Baal reform, while Jeremiah 35 shows his descendants still obeying his commands generations later. That obedience becomes a prophetic contrast to Judah's refusal to heed the Lord. Taken together, the material presents Jonadab as a formative ancestral figure whose legacy of disciplined faithfulness becomes morally instructive for the nation.1
Central Figure
Jonadab
Meaning: who gives liberally
A son of Rechab, the founder of a tribe who bound themselves by a vow to abstain from wine (Jer.
A son of Rechab, the founder of a tribe who bound themselves by a vow to abstain from wine (Jer. 35:6-19). There were different settlements of Rechabites (Judg. 1:16; 4:11; 1 Chr. 2:55). (See RECHABITE.) His interview and alliance with Jehu are mentioned in 2 Kings 10:15-23. He went with Jehu in his chariot to Samaria. 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.