“I am distressed for you, my brother Yehonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wondrous, Surpassing the love of women.
Proverbs 18:24 - The Scriptures 2009 A man of many friends might come to ruin, But there is a Loving One Who sticks closer than a brother! Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: And there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The man of many friends [a friend of all the world] will prove himself a bad friend, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. American Standard Version (1901) He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Common English Bible There are persons for companionship, but then there are friends who are more loyal than family. Catholic Public Domain Version A man amiable to society shall be more friendly than a brother. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A man amiable in society, shall be more friendly than a brother. |
“I am distressed for you, my brother Yehonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wondrous, Surpassing the love of women.
And Ittai answered the sovereign and said, “As יהוה lives, and as my master the sovereign lives, in whatever place my master the sovereign is, whether in death or life, let your servant also be there.”
And Aḇshalom said to Ḥushai, “Is this your loving-commitment to your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?”
But the sovereign spared Mephiḇosheth son of Yehonathan, son of Sha’ul, because of the oath of יהוה that was between them, between Dawiḏ and Yehonathan son of Sha’ul.
Do not forsake your own friend or your father’s friend, And do not go into your brother’s house In the day of your calamity – Better is a neighbour nearby than a brother far away.
Ointment and perfume gladden the heart, So one’s counsel is sweet to his friend.
And it came to be, when he had ended speaking to Sha’ul, that the being of Yehonathan was knit to the being of Dawiḏ, and Yehonathan loved him as his own being.
And Yehonathan and Dawiḏ made a covenant, because he loved him as his own being.