2 Samuel 1:26 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) I am distressed for you, my brother Yonatan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing 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. |
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Yonatan told David, saying, Sha'ul my father seeks to kill you: now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself:
Yonatan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.
As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of [a place] toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.
Yonatan, Sha'ul's son, arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.