1 Samuel 18:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ And Saul was exceeding angry, and this word was displeasing in his eyes, and he said: They have given David ten thousands, and to me they have given but a thousand; what can he have more but the kingdom?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

³ And Jonathan and David made a covenant together because Jonathan loved David as much as himself.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Then David and Jonathan formed a pact. For he loved him like his own soul.

1 Samuel 18:3 Cross References

1 Samuel 20:42

And David answered the priest, and said to him: Truly, as to what concerneth women, we have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the day before, when we came out, and the vessels of the young men were holy. Now this way is defiled, but it shall also be sanctified this day in the vessels.

2 Samuel 21:7

2 And David went, and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabes Galaad, who had stolen them from the street of Bethsan, where the Philistines had hanged them when they had slain Saul in Gelboe.

1 Samuel 23:18

3 Consider and see all his lurking holes, wherein he is bid, and return to me with the certainty of the thing, that I may go with you. And if be should even go down into the earth to hide himself, I will search him out in all the thousands of Juda.

1 Samuel 20:41

And the priest answered David, saying: I have no common bread at hand, but only holy bread, if the young men be clean, especially from women?

1 Samuel 22:8

3 And Saul said to him: Why have you conspired against me, thou, and the son of Isai, and thou hast given him bread and a sword, and hast consulted the Lord for him, that he should rise up against me, continuing a traitor to this day.

1 Samuel 19:1

And when Saul heard this he was appeased with the words of Jonathan, and swore: As the Lord liveth he shall not be slain.

Proverbs 18:24

The brethren of the poor man hate him: moreover also his friends have departed far from him. He that followeth after words only, shall have nothing.