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2 Samuel chapter 1, verses 25 and 26.

Jonathan lies slain on your high places.

I am distressed for you, my brother, Jonathan.

Very pleasant have you been to me.

Your love to me was extraordinary,

surpassing the love of women. This lament in

2 Samuel chapter 1 demonstrates the depth of the friendship that David and Jonathan experienced

with each other as David is now lamenting over Jonathan's death.

And he says, I'm distressed for you, my brother, very pleasant have you been to me.

Your love to me was extraordinary.

Think about the way First Samuel described the love and friendship that David and Jonathan experienced.

They loved one another as their own souls.

And here's a picture in the Bible of friendship that transcends family.

So David and Jonathan, obviously in different families and in families that because of

Saul's antipathy toward David, their families were against each other. And yet there was a bond

between them that was deeper than family. And the way that David even right here says, you were my brother,

Jonathan, and your love to me was extraordinary. The way this friendship played out and their

commitment to each other and they're protecting each other and they're looking out for each other.

As I read this, I just think about the need we all have for friendships that are like family,

that are close and that are marked by extraordinary love for one another.

The kind of love that cares for someone else like your own

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