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David and Jonathan The biblical account of David and Jonathan has been read by some as the story of two lovers. "La Somme le Roi", AD 1290; French illuminated ms (detail); British Museum. Some modern scholars and writers have interpreted the love between David and Jonathan as a homosexual relationship.
A promise is made by David to extend his covenant with Jonathan to include Jonatan's 'house' (verse 15) and his 'descendants' (verse 42), anticipating David's kindness to Jonathan's son, Mephibosheth (2 Samuel 9) and the survival of the house of Saul.
The story of David and Jonathan is introduced in Samuel 1 (18:1), where it says that "Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself". The feeling is expressed before the men exchanged a single word in an interaction that has been described as philia or love at first sight .
The last chapter ends with David talking to Saul and Abner, whereas in the beginning of this chapter it was clear that Jonathan, Saul's crown prince, was also present at the event and once he had a chance to talk to David, he immediately befriended David. [16] Jonathan loved David (verse 1), similar to how Saul, his father, had loved David (1 ...
An Amalekite comes to David and tells him that Saul and Jonathan are dead, and that Saul was mortally wounded and asked him to finish him, so he did. David is incensed and orders the Amalekite to be killed, delivering a eulogy about Jonathan and Saul. PEOPLE: David - יהוה YHVH - Tribe of Judah. PLACES: Ziklag - Mount Gilboa - Gath - Ashkelon
A number of scholars consider the David story to be a heroic tale similar to the legend of King Arthur or the epics of Homer, [117] [118] while others find such comparisons questionable. [119] One theme paralleled with other Near Eastern literature is the homoerotic nature of the relationship between David and Jonathan.
2 Samuel 9 is the ninth chapter of the Second Book of Samuel in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible or the second part of Books of Samuel in the Hebrew Bible. [1] According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to the prophet Samuel, with additions by the prophets Gad and Nathan, [2] but modern scholars view it as a composition of a number of independent texts of various ages from c ...
Then Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold. [22] Commonly a new king (of a new dynasty) killed all the descendants of the king he replaced to get rid of potential rivals, but David swore an oath not to wipe out Saul's dynasty, which he fulfilled by his treatment of Mephibosheth, son of Jonathan (2 Samuel 9). [23]