1 Samuel 18:25

18:25 Saul replied, “Here is what you should say to David: ‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his ¹  enemies.’” (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)

1 Samuel 18:1

Saul Comes to Fear David

18:1 When David ²  had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan and David became bound together in close friendship. ³  Jonathan loved David as much as he did his own life. ⁴ 

1 Samuel 20:33

20:33 Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan ⁵  in order to strike him down. So Jonathan was convinced ⁶  that his father had decided to kill David.

¹ tn Heb “the king’s.”

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “the soul of Jonathan was bound with the soul of David.”

⁴ tn Heb “like his [own] soul.”

sn On the nature of Jonathan’s love for David, see J. A. Thompson, “The Significance of the Verb Love in the David-Jonathan Narratives in 1 Samuel,” VT 24 (1974): 334-38.

⁵ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Jonathan) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “knew.”