1 Samuel 18:2
And Saul took him on that day, and would not permit him to go home to his father's house.
Leeser Tanakh
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
3Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because of his loving him as his own soul.
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:21And David came to Saul, and stood before him; and he loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer.
1 Samuel 19:7And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan told him all these words. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.
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 →