1 Samuel 18:2
From that time on Jonathan had David work for him and would not let him go back home.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.
In Context
3Jonathan made a solemn agreement with David because he loved him as he loved himself.
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:21David came to Saul and began working for him. Saul thought a great deal of him, and David became his armor-bearer.
1 Samuel 19:7Later Jonathan called David and told him all that had been said. Then he took him to Saul, and David worked for Saul as he had before.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 18:2-6
Jonathan's Love to David. ( b. c. 1060.) 1 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. 2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house. 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. 4 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… Read the whole commentary →