2 Samuel 1:26 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.

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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

“How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!”

Proverbs 18:24

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

1 Samuel 19:2

And Jonathan told David, “Saul my father seeks to kill you; therefore take heed to yourself in the morning, stay in a secret place and hide yourself;

1 Samuel 20:17

And Jonathan made David swear again by his love for him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

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 23:16

And Jonathan, Saul's son, rose, and went to David at Horesh, and strengthened his hand in God.