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Does this imply that everyone in Israel had sexual lust for David?
“Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself” (1 Sam. 18:3). Does this refer to the “covenant” of marriage? 18:7).
Samuel “kissed” Saul (1 Sam. 10:1).
Absalom “kissed” everyone who approached him (2 Sam.
15:5).
David “kissed” an old man Barzillai (2 Sam. 19:39).
Joab “kissed” Amasa (2 Sam. 20:9).
In the NT, believers should greet one another with a holy kiss (Rom. It is inconceivable, therefore, that God would hold up a homosexual relationship between David and Jonathan as a model of love and faithfulness.
Genesis 44 describes a father’s love for his son: Jacob’s love for his son Benjamin.
Jonathan “loved” David (1 Sam. 18:3). This Hebrew term for “love” (ʾāheḇ) is never once used to describe same-sex attraction or homosexual acts. Jonathan was going to practice his archery.
Saul’s courtiers propose that a musician be summoned to calm his mind.
Returning to the beginning of chapter 18, an introduction to the queerness of David and Jonathan is presented.
Jonathan sees a stripling[iii] and becomes infatuated with him. Jonathan rebuked his father and recalled David’s faithfulness to him in killing Goliath. They were covenant brothers in the Lord, whose friendship illustrates the beauty of godly loyalty and love.
148. 50:1).
Moses “kissed” his brother Aaron (Ex. The bond became queer because of YHWH, who as the scripture states, who produce an evil spirit upon Saul[xi].
In God’s protection of David, I believe that the queerness became established through the spiritual connection united amid two beings, operating under the prophetic.
The queerness of their relationship intensifies as situations become more critical, just like any relationship that occurs in daily life. However, this text provides homoerotic detail in the reviling of senses, and the question remains: how did the two become acquainted with each other moving toward a homoerotic disposition?
In defense of the origins of this relationship, Oley Keren states, “[T]he roots of Jonathan’s acquaintance with David lie in the episode in which an evil spirit terrifies Saul (16.15).
When he refers to the love of Jonathan, modern people are simply committing eisegesis when they read same-sex erotic love. ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials, EBSCOhost(accessed May 3, 2016). I contend that this being bound leads the two to become a single soul or connection. When considered closely, these passages do not teach that David and Jonathan were sexually attracted to each other.
Like a Rorschach test reveals our inner thoughts rather than objective reality, a sexualized reading of this text says more about the interpreter than the text itself.
5:26; 1 Pet. 5:13),
Men at this time expressed brotherly love in different ways. Saul, in the next chapter, perhaps to embarrass and get David killed, gives him a directive to collect the foreskins of one hundred Philistines in order to marry his daughter, Michal[ii]. This would mean that Jonathan’s delight in David corresponds to the will of YHWH; YHWH would even be its ultimate source.
48:10).
Joseph “kissed” his dead father (Gen. David loved Jonathan perhaps more than he loved himself, and the same vice versa. This claim is often advanced by those who wish to find biblical precedent for same-sex romantic or sexual unions. It describes deep sadness and despair. 2000.