1 Samuel 18:1

Holman Christian Standard Bible

When David had finished speaking with Saul, Jonathan committed himself to David, and loved him as much as he loved himself.

Cross References

Genesis 44:30

“So if I come to your servant my father and the boy is not with us — his life is wrapped up with the boy’s life —

2 Samuel 1:26

I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were such a friend to me. Your love for me was more wonderful than the love of women.

1 Chronicles 12:17

David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you, but if you have come to betray me to my enemies even though my hands have done no wrong, may the God of our ancestors look on it and judge.”

Psalm 86:11

Teach me Your way, Yahweh, and I will live by Your truth. Give me an undivided mind to fear Your name.

Proverbs 18:24

A man with many friends may be harmed, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.

Deuteronomy 13:6

“If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, ‘Let us go and worship other gods’ — which neither you nor your fathers have known,

Colossians 2:2

I want their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God’s mystery — Christ.

Judges 20:11

So all the men of Israel gathered united against the city.

1 Samuel 14:45

But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die, who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? No, as the Lord lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for he worked with God’s help today.” So the people redeemed Jonathan, and he did not die.

1 Samuel 18:3

Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as much as himself.

1 Samuel 19:1

Saul ordered his son Jonathan and all his servants to kill David. But Saul’s son Jonathan liked David very much,

1 Samuel 19:2

so he told him: “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning and hide in a secret place and stay there.

1 Samuel 20:17

Jonathan once again swore to David in his love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.

1 Samuel 20:8

Deal faithfully with your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the Lord. If I have done anything wrong, then kill me yourself; why take me to your father? ”

1 Samuel 22:8

That’s why all of you have conspired against me! Nobody tells me when my own son makes a covenant with Jesse’s son. None of you cares about me or tells me that my son has stirred up my own servant to wait in ambush for me, as is the case today.”

1 Samuel 23:18

Then the two of them made a covenant in the Lord’s presence. Afterward, David remained in Horesh, while Jonathan went home.