1 Samuel 20:17

World English Bible (2000)

Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 18:1 : 1 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
  • 1 Sam 18:3 : 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
  • 2 Sam 1:26 : 26 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
  • Prov 18:24 : 24 A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
  • Deut 13:6 : 6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods," which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

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  • 1 Sam 18:1-4
    4 verses
    91%

    1 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

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

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

    4 Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his sash.

  • 1 Sam 20:8-16
    9 verses
    81%

    8 Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you: but if there be in me iniquity, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?"

    9 Jonathan said, "Far be it from you; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come on you, then wouldn't I tell you that?"

    10 Then David said to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me if perchance your father answers you roughly?"

    11 Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the field." They both went out into the field.

    12 Jonathan said to David, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, [be witness]: when I have sounded my father about this time tomorrow, [or] the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not then send to you, and disclose it to you?

    13 Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.

    14 You shall not only while yet I live show me the loving kindness of Yahweh, that I not die;

    15 but also you shall not cut off your kindness from my house forever; no, not when Yahweh has cut off the enemies of David everyone from the surface of the earth."

    16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "Yahweh will require it at the hand of David's enemies."

  • 1 Sam 20:1-5
    5 verses
    78%

    1 David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"

    2 He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so."

    3 David swore moreover, and said, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, 'Don't let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:' but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."

    4 Then Jonathan said to David, "Whatever your soul desires, I will even do it for you."

    5 David said to Jonathan, "Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to dine with the king; but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field to the third day at evening.

  • 1 Sam 20:41-42
    2 verses
    77%

    41 As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of [a place] toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another, and wept one with another, and David wept the most.

    42 Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have both sworn in the name of Yahweh, saying, 'Yahweh shall be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed, forever.'" He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

  • 1 Sam 23:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

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

    17 He said to him, "Don't be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you; and you shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you; and that also Saul my father knows."

    18 They both made a covenant before Yahweh: and David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.

  • 1 Sam 19:1-7
    7 verses
    75%

    1 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.

    2 Jonathan told David, saying, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.

    3 I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you."

    4 Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, "Don't let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;

    5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"

    6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, "As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death."

    7 Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before.

  • 2 Sam 1:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

    25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.

    26 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

  • 2 Sam 1:17
    72%

    17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

  • 1 Sam 20:18
    71%

    18 Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon: and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.

  • 1 Sam 20:32-35
    4 verses
    71%

    32 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

    33 Saul cast his spear at him to strike him. By this Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.

    34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce anger, and ate no food the second day of the month; for he was grieved for David, because his father had done him shame.

    35 It happened in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little boy with him.

  • 1 Sam 14:44-45
    2 verses
    70%

    44 Saul said, "God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan."

    45 The people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day!" So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.

  • 1 Sam 20:27-28
    2 verses
    69%

    27 It happened on the next day after the new moon, the second day, that David's place was empty. Saul said to Jonathan his son, "Why doesn't the son of Jesse come to eat, neither yesterday, nor today?"

    28 Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Bethlehem.

  • 1 Sam 16:21
    69%

    21 David came to Saul, and stood before him. He loved him greatly; and he became his armor bearer.

  • 2 Sam 21:7
    69%

    7 But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh's oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 18:16
    69%

    16 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

  • 1 Sam 14:39
    68%

    39 For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

  • 1 Sam 24:22
    67%

    22 David swore to Saul. Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

  • 1 Sam 20:39
    67%

    39 But the boy didn't know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

  • 1 Sam 18:22
    67%

    22 Saul commanded his servants, "Talk with David secretly, and say, 'Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you: now therefore be the king's son-in-law.'"

  • 1 Sam 18:28
    67%

    28 Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him.