David Loved Jonathon in a totally different way to woman ,thats what he is meaning .
It has Absolutely nothing to do with sex.
its so obvious how the homosexual community has taken this out of context to suit their argument.
Good luck telling God thats what David meant on the day of Judgement
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Here's some facts about Jonathan and David's covenant; not only does it involve Jonathan stripping and giving all his belongings to David - this is an unsual concept back in those days, especially for mere platonic or political covenants, but besides descriptions of David and Jonathan kissing and embracing until David "grew large" (exceeding as the Hebrew puts it) or the fact that Saul belittled Jonathan for this covenant with feminine and sexual language, but here's a very important thing to note about the covenant...
That very day, Jonathan's father Saul had David move in to his palace with the royal family. In fact he insisted on it; this was out of character for the king because he was prone to jealously, but he was more or less obligated to do so because of David and Jonathan's covenant because living in the palace was a privalage to the royal family and their servants. David was neither, he was simply a national hero who entered a covenant relationship with the kings son. Many would say this was a political covenant, but most seem to forget that most marriages were arranged for political reasons, so it would essentially be the same if one of them was of a different gender.
Now it's a well known fact that David was a polygamist and Saul planned on having David marry one of his daughters, before one of them was already married, so David patched her up with another one of his daughters. Saul said something to David "Today you shall be my son in law through two", meaning that David was already his son in law through one of his children and was about to become this again through another one of his children. Most English tranlsations say "one of the twain" or "through the second" to imply that he was referring to the daughter that David didn't marry. Not only would that make no sense but the Original Hebrew had a different for for "second" that Saul didn't use use when he said "two".
At best he was saying David would become his son in law a second time, but there's no way David could do that if it was referring to his other daughter who David didn't marry.
David had multiple wives and conqubines at that point - he wouldn't be comparing a platonic relationship to the sexual relationships he had with his wives. Especially if it was more "pleasant".
Besides it says David and Jonathan kissed until David "exceeded". The only way there can't be anything sexual there is if you don't want to see it.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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