1 Samuel 18:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own life.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

And Jonathan and David made a covenant together because Jonathan loved David as much as himself.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then David and Jonathan formed a pact. For he loved him like his own soul.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And David and Jonathan made a covenant: for he loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 18:3 Cross References

2 Samuel 21:7

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

Proverbs 18:24

He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction: But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

1 Samuel 19:1

And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should slay David. But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David.

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 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 shall 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 22:8

that all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that discloseth to me when my son maketh a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or discloseth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

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.