Friendship, a covenant, romance – no matter what you call it, David’s love for Jonathan is one of the Bible’s most beautiful Story by Jacob F. Love, University of Tennessee • 1mo ...

David and Jonathan were not in it for the power, but because they were made after God’s own heart. Instead of competing with one another, they enacted his will among the people of Israel.

David and Jonathan So it is perhaps not entirely surprising that the two greatest love stories in the Bible are not of husband and wife, nor even of man and woman, but of man and man, and woman ...

If you Google the question, “Were David and Jonathan in the Bible gay?” you will get hundreds of hits. Some sites, drawing on the scholarship of, among others, John Boswell, an historian of ...

Among the more passionate poems in the Hebrew Bible is one David is said to have pronounced for Jonathan and his father, Saul, the Israelite king. A 14th century illustration of David and Jonathan ...

An illustration of David and Jonathan from 'Sunday at Home – A Family Magazine for Sabbath reading, 1883,' published by the Religious Tract Society in London. whitemay/DigitalVision Vectors via ...