1 Samuel 20:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

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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  • 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: Very pleasant have you been 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%

    1It 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.

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

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

    4Jonathan 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%

    8Therefore 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?

    9Jonathan 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?

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

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

    12Jonathan 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?

    13Yahweh 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.

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

    15but 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.

    16So 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%

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

    2He 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."

    3David 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.

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

    5David said to Jonathan, Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: 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%

    41As 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: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

    42Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us 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%

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

    17He 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.

    18They two made a covenant before Yahweh: and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house.

  • 1 Sam 19:1-7
    7 verses
    75%

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

    2Jonathan 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:

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

    4Jonathan 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:

    5for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel: you saw it, and did rejoice; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?

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

    7Jonathan 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%

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

    26I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan: Very pleasant have you been to me: Your love to me was wonderful, Passing the love of women.

  • 2 Sam 1:17
    72%

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

  • 1 Sam 20:18
    71%

    18Then 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%

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

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

    34So 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.

    35It 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%

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

    45The 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%

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

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

  • 1 Sam 16:21
    69%

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

  • 2 Sam 21:7
    69%

    7But 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%

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

  • 1 Sam 14:39
    68%

    39For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it be 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%

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

  • 1 Sam 20:39
    67%

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

  • 1 Sam 18:22
    67%

    22Saul commanded his servants, [saying], Commune 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%

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