2 Samuel 1:26 - The Scriptures 1998

²⁶ “I am distressed for you, my brother Yehonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wondrous, Surpassing 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.

2 Samuel 1:26 Cross References

2 Samuel 1:27

“How the mighty have fallen, And the weapons of battle perish!”

Proverbs 18:24

A man of many friends might come to ruin, But there is a Loving One Who sticks closer than a brother!

1 Samuel 19:2

and Yehonathan declared to Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 20:17

And Yehonathan again made Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 20:41

And as soon as the youth had gone, Dawiḏ

1 Samuel 23:16

And Yehonathan, Sha’ul’s son, arose and went to Dawiḏ