1 Samuel 18:3 - New International Version (Anglicised)

³ And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own life.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Common English Bible

³ And Jonathan and David made a covenant together because Jonathan loved David as much as himself.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Then David and Jonathan formed a pact. For he loved him like his own soul.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And David and Jonathan made a covenant: for he loved him as his own soul.

1 Samuel 18:3 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 21:7

The king spared Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the oath before the Lord between David and Jonathan son of Saul.

Proverbs 18:24

One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

1 Samuel 19:1

Saul told his son Jonathan and all the attendants to kill David. But Jonathan had taken a great liking to David

1 Samuel 20:41

After the boy had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone and bowed down before Jonathan three times, with his face to the ground. Then they kissed each other and wept together – but David wept the most.

1 Samuel 20:42

Jonathan said to David, ‘Go in peace, for we have sworn friendship with each other in the name of the Lord, saying, “The Lord is witness between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants for ever.” ’ Then David left, and Jonathan went back to the town.

1 Samuel 22:8

Is that why you have all conspired against me? No-one tells me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is concerned about me or tells me that my son has incited my servant to lie in wait for me, as he does today.’

1 Samuel 23:18

The two of them made a covenant before the Lord. Then Jonathan went home, but David remained at Horesh.