1 Samuel 18:1

Revised Standard Version

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

Cross References

Genesis 44:30

Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, then, as his life is bound up in the lad's life,

2 Samuel 1:26

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.

1 Chronicles 12:17

David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come to me in friendship to help me, my heart will be knit to you; but if to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong in my hands, then may the God of our fathers see and rebuke you.”

Psalm 86:11

Teach me thy way, O Lord, that I may walk in thy truth; unite my heart to fear thy name.

Proverbs 18:24

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

Deuteronomy 13:6

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

Colossians 2:2

that their hearts may be encouraged as they are knit together in love, to have all the riches of assured understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, of Christ,

Judges 20:11

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

1 Samuel 14:45

Then the people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has wrought this great victory in Israel? Far from it! As the Lord lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has wrought with God this day.” So the people ransomed Jonathan, that he did not die.

1 Samuel 18:3

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

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 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 20:8

Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a sacred covenant with you. But if there is guilt in me, slay me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?”

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.