Jonathan

Jonathan was the son of Shimei, David’s brother (2 Samuel 21:21), called Shimea in 1 Chronicles 20:7. In a war with the Philistines at Gath there was “a man of great stature, who had six fingers on every hand and six toes on every foot, twenty-four in number, and he also was born to the giant” (2 Samuel 21:20). “When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him” (2 Samuel 21:21). The four born to the giant in Gath “fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants” (2 Samuel 21:22).

Jonadab, Amnon’s friend, is also called “the son of Shimeah, David’s brother” (2 Samuel 13:3); some have taken the two to be one man, but Scripture does not say so.