2 Samuel 1:26 - Easy To Read Version

²⁶ Jonathan, my brother, I miss you so much! I enjoyed being with you so much. Your love for me was more wonderful than the love of women.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: Thy love to me was wonderful, Passing the love of women.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: Thy love to me was wonderful, Passing the love of women.

Common English Bible

²⁶ I grieve for you, my brother Jonathan! You were so dear to me! Your love was more amazing to me than the love of women.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ I grieve over you, my brother Jonathan: exceedingly stately, and worthy to be loved above the love of women. As a mother loves her only son, so also did I love you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ I grieve for thee, my brother Jonathan: exceeding beautiful, and amiable to me above the love of women. As the mother loveth her only son, so did I love thee.

2 Samuel 1:26 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:27

Strong men have fallen in battle. The weapons of war are gone.”

1 Samuel 20:17

Then Jonathan asked David to repeat his promise of love for him. Jonathan did this because he loved David as much as he loved himself.

1 Samuel 20:41

The boy left, and David came out from the place he was hiding on the other side of the hill. David bowed with his face to the ground in front of Jonathan. David bowed three times. Then David and Jonathan kissed each other. They both cried together, but David cried more than Jonathan.

1 Samuel 23:16

But Saul’s son Jonathan went to see David at Horesh. Jonathan helped David to have a stronger faith in God.