1 Samuel 18:2
And Saul took him in that day, and did not suffer him to return to his father's house.
LXX2012 (US English)
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
3And Jonathan and David made a covenant because he loved him as his own soul.
Cross References
1 Samuel 16:21And David went in 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 told him all these words; and Jonathan brought David in to Saul, and he was before him as in former times.
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 →