2 Samuel 1:26 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were such a friend to me. Your love for me was more wondrous than the love of women. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I grieve for thee, my brother Jonathan: exceeding beautiful, and amiable to me above the love of women. As the mother loveth her only son, so did I love thee. |
One with many friends may be harmed, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother.
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.
Jonathan once again swore to David in his love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.
When the servant had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone Ezel, fell face down to the ground, and paid homage three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept with each other, though David wept more.
Then Saul’s son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and encouraged him in his faith in God,