2 Samuel 1:26 - Modern King James Version I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. Very pleasant you have been to me. Your love to me was wonderful, more 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. |
A man who has friends may be broken up, but there is a Lover who sticks closer than a brother.
But Jonathan, Saul's son, loved David very much. And Jonathan told David, saying, My father Saul seeks to kill you. And now please be careful until morning, and stay in a secret place, and hide yourself.
And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him. For he loved him as he loved his own soul.
As soon as the lad had gone, David rose from the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. And they kissed one another, and wept with one another, until David exceeded.
And Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.