Jonathan and David

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• 2 Samuel 1:26

  I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

• 1 Samuel 18:1–4

  And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. …

• 1 Samuel 18:3

  Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

• 1 Samuel 18:1

  And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

• 1 Samuel 20:1–42

  And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life? And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so. And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death. …

• 1 Samuel 20:41

  And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

• 1 Samuel 18:1–30

  And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. …

• 1 Samuel 20:42

  And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.

• 1 Samuel 20:30

  Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?

• 2 Samuel 1:1–27

  Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance. And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped. …

• Revelation 1:1

  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

• 1 Samuel 23:16

  And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

• 1 Samuel 18:4

  And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.

• 1 Samuel 20:17

  And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

• John 15:13

  Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

• 1 Samuel 20:34

  So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and did eat no meat the second day of the month: for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.

• 1 Samuel 20:4

  Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it for thee.

• 1 Samuel 19:1–24

  And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself: And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou art, and I will commune with my father of thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee. …

• 2 Samuel 1:17

  And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

• 1 Samuel 20:16

  So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the LORD even require it at the hand of David's enemies.

• 1 Samuel 19:1

  And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.

• 1 Samuel 20:12

  And Jonathan said unto David, O LORD God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;

• 1 Samuel 31:2

  And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, Saul's sons.

• 1 Samuel 19:2

  But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

• Proverbs 18:24

  A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

• 1 Samuel 20:18

  Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.

• 1 Chronicles 20:7

  But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's brother slew him.

• 1 Samuel 21:1–15

  Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee? And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place. Now therefore what is under thine hand? give me five loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present. …

• 1 Chronicles 27:32

  Also Jonathan David's uncle was a counsellor, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons:

• 1 Samuel 20:10

  Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?

• 1 Samuel 20:8

  Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

• 1 Samuel 23:18

  And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.

• 1 Samuel 18:27

  Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

• 1 Samuel 20:28

  And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth-lehem:

• 1 Samuel 13:2

  Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

• 1 Samuel 18:2

  And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.

• Matthew 22:39

  And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

• 1 Samuel 14:1

  Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.

• 1 Samuel 13:14

  But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the LORD hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the LORD hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the LORD commanded thee.

• 1 Samuel 19:7

  And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.