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David and Jonathan
How David and Jonathan are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
David and Jonathan stood together.
Jonathan, Saul's son, bound himself to David by covenant and gave him his robe and his sword. He shielded David from his own father.
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant
1 Samuel 18:3, King James Version
Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David
1 Samuel 18:4, King James Version
Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee
1 Samuel 19:2, King James Version
The Lord be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever
1 Samuel 20:42, King James Version
Where they cross: 1 Samuel 18:1-4
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
1 Samuel 18:1-4
1And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
2And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.
3Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
4And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.
1 Samuel 19:2
2But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:
1 Samuel 20:42
42And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
King James Version