JONATHAN

Passages on this topic · 138

• Judges 17:7

  There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.

• Judges 17:8

  The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he traveled.

• Judges 17:9

  Micah said to him, “Where did you come from?” He said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”

• Judges 17:10

  Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.

• Judges 17:11

  The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.

• Judges 17:12

  Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

• Judges 17:13

  Then Micah said, “Now know I that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”

• Judges 18:1

  In those days there was no king in Israel. In those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day, their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.

• Judges 18:2

  The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

• Judges 18:3

  When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; so they turned aside there, and said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?”

• Judges 18:4

  He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I am become his priest.”

• Judges 18:5

  They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.”

• Judges 18:6

  The priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh.”

• Judges 18:7

  Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were there, how they lived in safety, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land, possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with anyone else.

• Judges 18:8

  They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”

• Judges 18:9

  They said, “Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.

• Judges 18:10

  When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”

• Judges 18:11

  The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol, with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

• Judges 18:12

  They went up and encamped in Kiriath Jearim, in Judah. Therefore they called that place Mahaneh Dan, to this day. Behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim.

• Judges 18:13

  They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.

• Judges 18:14

  Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”

• Judges 18:15

  They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.

• Judges 18:16

  The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.

• Judges 18:17

  The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

• Judges 18:18

  When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

• Judges 18:19

  They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”

• Judges 18:20

  The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.

• Judges 18:21

  So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, the livestock, and the goods before them.

• Judges 18:22

  When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house gathered together and overtook the children of Dan.

• Judges 18:23

  As they cried to the children of Dan, they turned their faces, and said to Micah, “What ails you, that you come with such a company?”

• Judges 18:24

  He said, “You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away! What more do I have? How can you ask me, ‘What ails you?’”

• Judges 18:25

  The children of Dan said to him, “Don’t let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household.”

• Judges 18:26

  The children of Dan went their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.

• Judges 18:27

  They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burned the city with fire.

• Judges 18:28

  There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone else; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city, and lived in it.

• Judges 18:29

  They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish.

• Judges 18:30

  The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

• 1 Samuel 13:3

  Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”

• 1 Samuel 13:4

  All Israel heard that Saul had struck the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was considered an abomination to the Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.

• 1 Samuel 13:16

  Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present with them, stayed in Geba of Benjamin; but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

• 1 Samuel 14:1

  Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison, that is on the other side.” But he didn’t tell his father.

• 1 Samuel 14:2

  Saul stayed in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him were about six hundred men;

• 1 Samuel 14:3

  including Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. The people didn’t know that Jonathan was gone.

• 1 Samuel 14:4

  Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

• 1 Samuel 14:5

  The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the other on the south in front of Geba.

• 1 Samuel 14:6

  Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint on Yahweh to save by many or by few.”

• 1 Samuel 14:7

  His armor bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Turn and, behold, I am with you according to your heart.”

• 1 Samuel 14:8

  Then Jonathan said, “Behold, we will pass over to the men, and we will reveal ourselves to them.

• 1 Samuel 14:9

  If they say thus to us, ‘Wait until we come to you!’ then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.

• 1 Samuel 14:10

  But if they say this, ‘Come up to us!’ then we will go up; for Yahweh has delivered them into our hand. This shall be the sign to us.”

• 1 Samuel 14:11

  Both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, “Behold, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves!”

• 1 Samuel 14:12

  The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, and said, “Come up to us, and we will show you something!” Jonathan said to his armor bearer, “Come up after me; for Yahweh has delivered them into the hand of Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 14:13

  Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor bearer killed them after him.

• 1 Samuel 14:14

  That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land.

• 1 Samuel 14:15

  There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the raiders, also trembled; and the earth quaked, so there was an exceedingly great trembling.

• 1 Samuel 14:16

  The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold, the multitude melted away and scattered.

• 1 Samuel 14:17

  Then Saul said to the people who were with him, “Count now, and see who is missing from us.” When they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.

• 1 Samuel 14:18

  Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring God’s ark here.” For God’s ark was with the children of Israel at that time.

• 1 Samuel 14:24

  The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies.” So none of the people tasted food.

• 1 Samuel 14:25

  All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on the ground.

• 1 Samuel 14:26

  When the people had come to the forest, behold, honey was dripping, but no one put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

• 1 Samuel 14:27

  But Jonathan didn’t hear when his father commanded the people with the oath. Therefore he put out the end of the rod who was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes brightened.

• 1 Samuel 14:28

  Then one of the people answered, and said, “Your father directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed is the man who eats food today.’” The people were faint.

• 1 Samuel 14:29

  Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. Please look how my eyes have brightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

• 1 Samuel 14:30

  How much more, if perhaps the people had eaten freely today of the plunder of their enemies which they found? For now has there been no great slaughter among the Philistines.”

• 1 Samuel 14:43

  Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done!” Jonathan told him, and said, “I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die.”

• 1 Samuel 14:44

  Saul said, “God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan.”

• 1 Samuel 14:45

  The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God today!” So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn’t die.

• 1 Samuel 14:49

  Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchishua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal.

• 1 Samuel 18:1

  When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

• 1 Samuel 18:2

  Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.

• 1 Samuel 18:3

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

• 1 Samuel 18:4

  Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave it to David, and his clothing, even including his sword, his bow, and his sash.

• 1 Samuel 19:1

  Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, greatly delighted in David.

• 1 Samuel 19:2

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

• 1 Samuel 19:3

  I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you.”

• 1 Samuel 19:4

  Jonathan spoke good of David to Saul his father, and said to him, “Don’t let the king sin against his servant, against David; because he has not sinned against you, and because his works have been very good toward you;

• 1 Samuel 19:5

  for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?”

• 1 Samuel 19:6

  Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, “As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death.”

• 1 Samuel 19:7

  Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before.

• 1 Samuel 23:16

  Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

• 1 Samuel 23:17

  He said to him, “Don’t be afraid; for the hand of Saul my father won’t find you; and you will be king over Israel, and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also.”

• 1 Samuel 23:18

  They both made a covenant before Yahweh. Then David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.

• 1 Samuel 31:2

  The Philistines overtook Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

• 1 Samuel 31:6

  So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor bearer, and all his men, that same day together.

• 1 Samuel 31:11

  When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

• 1 Samuel 31:12

  all the valiant men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burned them there.

• 1 Samuel 31:13

  They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

• 2 Samuel 1:12

  They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they had fallen by the sword.

• 2 Samuel 1:17

  David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

• 2 Samuel 1:18

  (and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):

• 2 Samuel 1:19

  “Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

• 2 Samuel 1:20

  Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

• 2 Samuel 1:21

  You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was defiled and cast away, The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.

• 2 Samuel 1:22

  From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, Jonathan’s bow didn’t turn back. Saul’s sword didn’t return empty.

• 2 Samuel 1:23

  Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.

• 2 Samuel 1:24

  You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you delicately in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.

• 2 Samuel 1:25

  How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle! Jonathan was slain on your high places.

• 2 Samuel 1:26

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

• 2 Samuel 1:27

  How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!”

• 2 Samuel 4:4

  Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the news came about Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse picked him up and fled. As she hurried to flee, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

• 2 Samuel 15:27

  The king said also to Zadok the priest, “Aren’t you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.

• 2 Samuel 15:28

  Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me.”

• 2 Samuel 17:17

  Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.

• 2 Samuel 17:18

  But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.

• 2 Samuel 17:19

  The woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and spread out bruised grain on it; and nothing was known.

• 2 Samuel 17:20

  Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman said to them, “They have gone over the brook of water.” When they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

• 2 Samuel 17:21

  After they had departed, they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, “Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counseled against you.”

• 2 Samuel 17:22

  Then David arose, and all the people who were with him, and they passed over the Jordan. By the morning light there lacked not one of them who had not gone over the Jordan.

• 2 Samuel 21:12

  So David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;

• 2 Samuel 21:13

  and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son. They also gathered the bones of those who were hanged.

• 2 Samuel 21:14

  They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land.

• 2 Samuel 21:21

  When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David’s brother, killed him.

• 2 Samuel 23:32

  Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

• 1 Kings 1:42

  While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said, “Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news.”

• 1 Kings 1:43

  Jonathan answered Adonijah, “Most certainly our lord king David has made Solomon king.

• 1 Kings 1:44

  The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they have caused him to ride on the king’s mule.

• 1 Kings 1:45

  Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon. They have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that you have heard.

• 1 Kings 1:46

  Also, Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.

• 1 Kings 1:47

  Moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne;’ and the king bowed himself on the bed.

• 1 Kings 1:48

  Also thus said the king, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne today, my eyes even seeing it.’”

• 1 Chronicles 2:32

  The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan; and Jether died without children.

• 1 Chronicles 2:33

  The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

• 1 Chronicles 8:34

  The son of Jonathan was Merib Baal. Merib Baal became the father of Micah.

• 1 Chronicles 10:2

  The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

• 1 Chronicles 11:34

  the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,

• 1 Chronicles 20:7

  When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother killed him.

• 1 Chronicles 27:32

  Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe; and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons.

• Ezra 8:6

  Of the sons of Adin, Ebed the son of Jonathan; and with him fifty males.

• Ezra 10:15

  Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this; and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

• Nehemiah 12:11

  and Joiada became the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan became the father of Jaddua.

• Nehemiah 12:14

  of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;

• Nehemiah 12:22

  As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers’ households; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.

• Nehemiah 12:35

  and some of the priests’ sons with trumpets: Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph;

• Jeremiah 37:15

  The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

• Jeremiah 37:20

  Now please hear, my lord the king: please let my supplication be presented before you, that you not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.”

• Jeremiah 38:26

  then you shall tell them, ‘I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’”

• Jeremiah 40:8

  then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.