1 Samuel 18:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

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

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ 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 Saul's son Jonathan, because of the oath of the Lord which was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

Proverbs 18:24

There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

1 Samuel 19:1

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

1 Samuel 20:41

And as soon as the lad had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed three times; and they kissed one another, and wept with one another, until David recovered himself.

1 Samuel 20:42

Then 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 you, and between my descendants and your descendants, for ever.’ ” And he rose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

1 Samuel 22:8

that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me when my son makes a league with the son of Jesse, none of you is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day.”

1 Samuel 23:18

And the two of them made a covenant before the Lord; David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home.