1 Samuel 18:2
And from that day Saul kept David with him and did not let him return to his father’s house.
Majority Standard Bible
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 made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:21When David came to Saul and entered his service, Saul loved him very much, and David became his armor-bearer.
1 Samuel 19:7So Jonathan summoned David and told him all these things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and David was with Saul as 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 →