My friend Jonathan

“Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you want me to do, I’ll do for you” (1 Samuel 20:4).

After David killed Golitha and after King Saul talked to David, “Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself” (18:1).  “And Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself” (v.3).  So “Jonathan took off the robe he was wearing and gave it to David, along with his tunic, and even his sword, his bow and his belt” (v.4). And when King Saul told his son Jonathan and all the attendants to kill David, since Jonathan was very fond of David (19:1), he warned David so that he might not killed by his father Saul (v.2).  Jonathan even tried to defend David before his father Saul (vv.4-5).  He wanted to do whatever David might ask him to do (20:4).  And when Jonathan was trying to protect David, his father “hurled his spear at him to kill him (v.33).  He “did not eat because he was grieved at his father’s shameful treatment of David” (v.34).  When time came for Jonathan to say ‘Good-bye’ to his beloved friend David, David “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” (v.41).