1 Samuel 18:1-3

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1 H3615 It happened, when he had made an end H1696 of speaking H7586 to Saul, H5315 that the soul H3083 of Jonathan H7194 was knit H5315 with the soul H1732 of David, H3083 and Jonathan H157 loved H5315 him as his own soul.

2 H7586 Saul H3947 took H3117 him that day, H5414 and would let H7725 him go no more home H1 to his father's H7725 house.

3 H3083 Then Jonathan H1732 and David H3772 made H1285 a covenant, H160 because he loved H5315 him as his own soul.

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1 Samuel 18:1 Jonathan loves David.
1 Samuel 18:5 Saul envies his praise;
1 Samuel 18:10 seeks to kill him in his fury;
1 Samuel 18:12 fears him for his good success;
1 Samuel 18:17 offers him his daughters for a snare.
1 Samuel 18:23 David persuaded to be the king's son-in-law, gives two hundred foreskins of the Philistines for Michal's dowry.
1 Samuel 18:28 Saul's hatred and David's glory increase.

the soul of Jonathan.The modesty, piety, and courage of David were so congenial to the character of the amiable Jonathan, that they attracted his most cordial esteem and affection; so that the most intimate friendship subsisted between them from that time, and they loved each other with pure hearts fervently. Their friendship could not be affected by the common vicissitudes of life; and it exemplifies by fact what the ancients have written on the subject; [Ten philian isoteta einai, kai mian psychen ton philon heteron auton.] "Friendship is an entire sameness, and one soul: a friend is another self."
1 Samuel 14:1-14; 1 Samuel 14:45; Genesis 44:30; Judges 20:11; 1 Chronicles 12:17; Psalms 86:11; Colossians 2:2
loved him.
1 Samuel 18:3; 1 Samuel 19:2; 1 Samuel 20:17; Deuteronomy 13:6; 2 Samuel 1:26; Proverbs 18:24