2 Samuel 1:26 - New International Version (Anglicised)

²⁶ I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ 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

²⁶ 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)

²⁶ 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

²⁶ 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

²⁶ 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

²⁶ 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.

2 Samuel 1:26 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 1:27

‘How the mighty have fallen! The weapons of war have perished!’

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 19:2

and warned him, ‘My father Saul is looking for a chance to kill you. Be on your guard tomorrow morning; go into hiding and stay there.

1 Samuel 20:17

And Jonathan made David reaffirm his oath out of love for him, because he loved him as he loved himself.

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 23:16

And Saul’s son Jonathan went to David at Horesh and helped him to find strength in God.