This document is about Jonathan (Son of Abiathar). For other homonyms, please refer to the Jonathan document. Jonathan (Son of Abiathar) was a servant of King David and the son of Abiathar, who served as a priest at the time. During Absalom's rebellion, he sided with King David and served as a messenger.
2 Samuel 17:15Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, ‘Don’t lodge tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people who are with him.’ ”2 Samuel 17:16Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.2 Samuel 17:17But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.2 Samuel 17:18The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out crushed grain on it; and nothing was known.2 Samuel 17:19Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook of water.” When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.2 Samuel 17:20After they had departed, they came up out of the well, and went and told king David); and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.”2 Samuel 17:21Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan). By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.2 Samuel 17:22When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
다윗왕이 솔로몬에게 왕위를 넘겨줄 때 아도니야가 반란을 일으켰는데, 이때 요나단의 아버지 아비아달도 반란에 가담하였었다. 그러다 솔로몬이 왕위계승을 확실히 하였다는 소식을 듣고 아도니야에게 전했고, 이로 인해 반란 세력들은 흩어져 실패하게 되었다.
1 Kings 1:42Jonathan answered Adonijah, “Most certainly our lord king David has made Solomon king.1 Kings 1:43The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king’s mule.