1 Samuel 18:1

Legacy Standard Bible

Now it happened when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

Cross References

Genesis 44:30

So now, when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us—and his life is bound up in the boy’s life—

2 Samuel 1:26

“I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was more wonderful Than the love of women.

1 Chronicles 12:17

David went out before them, and he answered and said to them, “If you come peacefully to me to help me, my heart shall be united with you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no violence in my hands, may the God of our fathers look on it and reprove.”

Psalm 86:11

¶Teach me Your way, O Yahweh; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name.

Proverbs 18:24

A man of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Deuteronomy 13:6

“If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers have known,

Colossians 2:2

so that their hearts may be encouraged, having been held together in love, even unto all the wealth of the full assurance of understanding, unto the full knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself,

Judges 20:11

Thus all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, united as one man.

1 Samuel 14:45

But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die, who has brought about this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day.” So the people redeemed Jonathan, and he did not die.

1 Samuel 18:3

Then Jonathan cut a covenant with David because he loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 19:1

Then Saul spoke with Jonathan his son and all his servants to put David to death. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.

1 Samuel 19:2

So Jonathan told David saying, “Saul my father is seeking to put you to death. So now, please be careful in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself.

1 Samuel 20:17

And Jonathan made David swear again because of his love for him, because he loved him as he loved his own soul.

1 Samuel 20:8

Therefore show lovingkindness to your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you. But if there is iniquity in me, put me to death yourself; for why then should you bring me to your father?”

1 Samuel 22:8

For all of you have conspired against me so that there is no one who reveals in my ear when my son cuts a covenant with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me or reveals in my ear that my son has caused my servant to rise up against me to lie in ambush, as it is this day.”

1 Samuel 23:18

So the two of them cut a covenant before Yahweh; and David stayed at Horesh while Jonathan went to his house.