Jonathan (1 Samuel)
Jonathan ( Jonathan ) was, according to the Old Testament of the Bible, the eldest son of King Saul, and his cousin and best friend of David. In the history of conflict between David and Saul, he plays an important role.
Saul, even melancholic and at its own feeling unsuccessful and unloved, you have to watch that both his son Jonathan and his daughter Michal David adore. As Saul's jealousy of David in the face of its military successes rises to the destruction will, Jonathan David reveals his father's plans and protects him so much.
Jonathan falls in a battle against the Philistines on Gilboa mountains with his father Saul. David is wrong with the news of it to a poignant lament for the dead.
The biblical stories about Jonathan can be found in 1 Samuel 13 14; 18.1 to 4; 19:1-7; 20; 31 and 2 Samuel 1.17 to 27.