1 Samuel 18:1

²⁴A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

¹⁷Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

²⁶I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, surpassing the love of women.

³Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

²that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

^30[+] Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;

²Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, live in a secret place, and hide yourself.

⁶If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

¹¹So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

¹⁷David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”