I Samuel 18:3-4
I Samuel 20:17
II Samuel 1:26
2006-12-04 14:25:18 · 19 answers · asked by Mike 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I call it, Brokeback Bible.
2006-12-04 14:28:36 · answer #1 · answered by johnatplayct 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Jonathan loved David like he was his own brother. He gave David his armor, shield, cloak, etc. He even helped him hide from his father King Saul after God's Spirit lefft him for sinning and he had Samuel annoint David as the future King of Israel.
2006-12-04 16:35:27 · answer #2 · answered by robin rmsclvr25 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were the best of friends, closer than brothers. David even married Jonathan's sister, so they had a family connection as well.
After being crowned king, David had a search done for anybody left out of his brother-in-law's family. He found one man, Mephibosheth, Jonathan's only son, who was crippled due to a fall. Instead of killing off a potential heir to Saul's throne, David took this young man into his own house, and gave him a home along with his own family.
2006-12-04 15:22:47 · answer #3 · answered by MamaBear 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean that they were possibly gay with eachother?
Many would forbid the idea. But this Christian has no problem with it. David and Jonathan could have been what some would call, 'too close.' Whatever it was, God did not think David had to be 'refect.' It wasn't his perfection that God expected of him. It was his trust of God, and his response to God. That's what God was impressed by.
The same is true with us. It's not perfection that God wants from us, we can't be perfect. As was He with David, God wants us to trust Him.
So all those Fundies that come on here and give the GLBT people a load of crap about being what they are, are Fundies. They have it wrong. Being straight is not a prerequisite of being Christian.
A Christian is a Christian because he or she or heshe, trusts God, and announces to God that the Resurrection of Jesus Christ is true.
It's like that.
2006-12-04 14:37:51 · answer #4 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Like brothers.
2006-12-04 14:28:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This doesn't prove your hidden agenda that they were homosexual lovers. they were as close as two men could be. they may have even loved each other. but they never had sex, since that is your real question. there is even nothing wrong with being homosexual, but the bible tells us that homosexuals are not supposed to actively/ sexaully pursue those desires. two men can love each other without having sex, believe it or not. did you love your father, so does it follow that you also had sex with him ?
2006-12-04 16:16:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think they loved each other more than anyone else in their lives. I think Godly love between two men is the most powerful emotion on earth. If you are hinting they might have had homosexual relations, I would strongly disagree.
2006-12-04 14:28:48 · answer #7 · answered by nancy jo 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
They loved each other like brothers, the Bible says.
2006-12-04 14:27:42 · answer #8 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very close
2006-12-04 14:26:58 · answer #9 · answered by Eyebee 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They were like brothers
2006-12-04 14:31:52 · answer #10 · answered by Midge 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they Loved eachother...pledged themselves to eachother..protected eachother
IN the story of David and Jonathan, we have an example, of a compact between two friends/lovers--one the son of the chief, the other a shepherd youth--only in this case, in the song of David ("I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan, thy love to me was wonderful") we are fortunate in having the inner feeling preserved for us. It should be noted that Jonathan gives to David his "most precious possessions."
"And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine (Goliath), he said unto Abner, the captain of the host, 'Abner, whose son is this youth?' And Abner said, 'As thy soul liveth, O King, I cannot tell.' And the King said, 'Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.' And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand. And Saul said to him, 'Whose son art thou, young man?' And David answered, 'The son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.'
"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. And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. And 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 Sam. ch. xvii. 55.
Later in the story, Jonathan successfully intercedes with Saul to spare David's life. At their last meeing, 1 Samuel 20:41, they are described as kissing one another and weeping together. David's grief at Jonathan's death is profound and moving. In Davids lament for Jonathan he describes their friendship as "passing the love of women". This elegy, 2 Samuel 1:18-27. known as 'the Bow,' is one of the most beloved passages in the Hebrew Bible.
This is one of the most beautiful LOVE stories of the Bible...the love of friends...Brothers in war and perhaps..Lovers..
2006-12-04 14:45:50 · answer #11 · answered by Matt Z 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋