You have been very pleasant to me.
Your love to me was more wonderful
Than the love of women." v.26
Read chapter 1
David was Saul's enemy yet David laments for him at his death because he was God's anointed. He also mourns for his best friend Jonathan, Saul's son. Their friendship was so close that David describes it as similar to a husband and wife kind of love or more. Jonathan being the king's son was a prince therefore and was to later become king, yet God then chose David as the next king over Israel. This seems like it would cause spite and hatred of Jonathan towards David but the opposite happened. Jonathan knew and desired David to become king and treated this peasant boy as a prince's brother. "Jonathan, with everything to lose, and David with everything to gain, remained true and loyal friends" (Pulpit Commentary).
When have you been a friend to someone of a different class/popularity that became a friendship deeper than what society would say or thing could be?
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