2 Samuel 1:26
New International Version
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.

New Living Translation
How I weep for you, my brother Jonathan! Oh, how much I loved you! And your love for me was deep, deeper than the love of women!

English Standard Version
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.

Berean Standard Bible
I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; You have been very pleasant to me; Your love to me was wonderful, Surpassing the love of women.

New American Standard Bible
“I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; You have been a close friend to me. Your love for me was more wonderful Than the love of women.

NASB 1995
“I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was more wonderful Than the love of women.

NASB 1977
“I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was more wonderful Than the love of women.

Legacy Standard Bible
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was more wonderful Than the love of women.

Amplified Bible
“I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; You have been a good friend to me. Your love toward me was more wonderful Than the love of women.

Christian Standard Bible
I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were such a friend to me. Your love for me was more wondrous than the love of women.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were such a friend to me. Your love for me was more wonderful than the love of women.

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I have been grieving myself for you my brother Jonathan! You have been beloved to me! Very precious was your love to me, more than the love of women!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I am grieved for thee, my brother Jonathan; thou wast very lovely to me; thy love to me was wonderful beyond the love of women.

Contemporary English Version
Jonathan, I miss you most! I loved you like a brother. You were truly loyal to me, more faithful than a wife to her husband.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I am heartbroken over you, my brother Jonathan. You were my great delight. Your love was more wonderful to me than the love of women.

Good News Translation
"I grieve for you, my brother Jonathan; how dear you were to me! How wonderful was your love for me, better even than the love of women.

International Standard Version
I am in distress for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been most kind to me. Your love for me was extraordinary — beyond love from women.

JPS Tanakh 1917
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan; Very pleasant hast thou been unto me; Wonderful was thy love to me, Passing the love of women.

Literal Standard Version
I am in distress for you, my brother Jonathan, | You were very pleasant to me; Your love was wonderful to me, | Above the love of women!

Majority Standard Bible
I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.

New American Bible
I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother! Most dear have you been to me; More wondrous your love to me than the love of women.

NET Bible
I grieve over you, my brother Jonathan! You were very dear to me. Your love was more special to me than the love of women.

New Revised Standard Version
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; greatly beloved were you to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

New Heart English Bible
I grieve for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love for me was a wonder, more than the love of women.

Webster's Bible Translation
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been to me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

World English Bible
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, surpassing the love of women.

Young's Literal Translation
I am in distress for thee, my brother Jonathan, Very pleasant wast thou to me; Wonderful was thy love to me, Above the love of women!

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Context
David's Song for Saul and Jonathan
25How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights. 26I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women. 27How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!”…

Cross References
1 Samuel 18:1
After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

2 Samuel 1:27
How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!"


Treasury of Scripture

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.

thy love

1 Samuel 18:1-4
And 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…

1 Samuel 19:2
But 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 20:17,41
And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul…

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(26) Passing the love of women.--By this strong expression, comparing Jonathan's love for David to that of the faithful wife for her husband, David shows his appreciation of that wonderful affection which had existed between Jonathan and himself under the most untoward circumstances. It was such an affection as could only exist between noble natures and those united in the fear of God. In these last verses of the elegy which relate to Jonathan alone, David has given expression to his own personal sorrow.

Verse 26. - Thy love to me was wonderful. Never was there a purer friendship than that of Jonathan for David. It began just after the combat with Goliath, when the young prince, instead of seeing in David a rival, who had equalled his own feat of valour, took him to his heart, put upon him his own robe and armour, and thus presented him to the army as his friend and brother. Nor did his father's hatred of David, nor the knowledge that David was to inherit the kingdom, interfere with his love. He remained a dutiful son to his father, and accepted his inferior position with magnanimity, without once seeing in David cause for blame; and it surpassed the love of women, because, to requite their devotion, they look for protection and homage, the more delightful because it is paid by the strong to the weak. But here the lives of the two friends could not combine in one happy fusion of mutual union. Their hearts were bound together, but a hard fate, of which they were fully aware, made the ruin of the one the certain result of the happiness of the other. Nevertheless, Jonathan, with everything to lose, and David with everything to gain, remained true and loyal friends.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I grieve
צַר־ (ṣar-)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6887: To bind, tie up, be restricted, narrow, scant, or cramped

for you,
עָלֶ֗יךָ (‘ā·le·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

Jonathan,
יְה֣וֹנָתָ֔ן (yə·hō·w·nā·ṯān)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3083: Jonathan -- 'the LORD has given', the name of a number of Israelites

my brother.
אָחִי֙ (’ā·ḥî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 251: A brother, )

You were delightful
נָעַ֥מְתָּ (nā·‘am·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5276: To be pleasant, delightful, or lovely

to me;
לִּ֖י (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew

your love
אַהֲבָֽתְךָ֙ (’a·hă·ḇā·ṯə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 160: Love (noun)

to me
לִ֔י (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew

was extraordinary,
נִפְלְאַ֤תָה (nip̄·lə·’a·ṯāh)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 6381: To separate, distinguish, to be, great, difficult, wonderful

surpassing the love
מֵאַהֲבַ֖ת (mê·’a·hă·ḇaṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 160: Love (noun)

of women.
נָשִֽׁים׃ (nā·šîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female


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