1 Samuel 20:17

Young's Literal Translation 1898

and Jonathan addeth to cause David to swear, because he loveth him, for with the love of his own soul he hath loved him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:26

I am in distress for thee, my brother Jonathan, Very pleasant wast thou to me; Wonderful was thy love to me, Above the love of women!

Proverbs 17:17

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

Proverbs 18:24

A man with friends [is] to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

Jeremiah 40:9

And swear to them doth Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, and to their men, saying, ‘Be not afraid of serving the Chaldeans, abide in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it is well for you;

Deuteronomy 13:6

‘When thy brother — son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend who [is] as thine own soul — doth move thee, in secret, saying, Let us go and serve other gods — (which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers,

1 Samuel 18:1

And it cometh to pass, when he finisheth to speak unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan hath been bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loveth him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 18:3

And Jonathan maketh — also David — a covenant, because he loveth him as his own soul,