Was david in the bible gay
Were David and Jonathan homosexual lovers?
That‘s a fair question, though it’s a question that would own been strange to anyone in the biblical world and really would have been strange to almost anyone until a generation or two ago.
The fact of the matter is that homosexual behavior was almost unheard of within Israel and even revisionist scholars have argued that in ancient Judaism and in first Christianity it would have been completely forbidden and not at all even a matter of controversy that homosexual activity was forbidden by Scripture.
So clearly in Leviticus 18 and Leviticus 20 there is already there in the Torah a proscription against a man lying with a man as with a gal. Homosexuality is listed as one of the types of sexual sin there in the holiness code. So it’s really unthinkable that David and Jonathan would have had a homosexual relationship and that there wouldn’t contain been the most extreme establish of outrage and judgment either upon them or upon the biblical authors for suggesting at such.
It makes more much sense to say the only reason that David and Jonathan
Were David and Jonathan gay?
David had multiple wives and concubines (2 Sam. ) and a lust for naked women like Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11). Jonathan was also married to a woman (2 Sam. 9). This doesn’t fit with the narrative that David and Jonathan were attracted to each other. 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. It’s sad that interpreters cannot identify what genuine love looks fancy between two friends, but rather, seek to understand love through the lens of a hyper-sexualized reading of Scripture.
“The soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David” (1 Sam. ). This Hebrew expression is “never once used in the Old Testament for a sexual or romantic relationship.” In evidence, this Hebrew expression (nep̱eš niqšerāh benep̱eš) is very close to the phrase used in Genesis (nep̱eš qešûrāh benep̱eš). Genesis 44 describes a father’
What was the relationship between David and Jonathan?
Answer
We know from 1 Samuel that Jonathanloved David. Second Samuel records David’s lament after Jonathan’s death, in which he said that his love for Jonathan was more wonderful than the love of a gal. Some use these two passages to suggest a homosexual relationship between David and Jonathan. This interpretation, however, should be rejected for at least three reasons.
First, the Hebrew word for “love” used here covers a broad range of meanings and does not mean “romantic” or “sexual” love unless the context demands it. Forms of the matching word are used for loving God (Exodus ), loving one’s neighbor as oneself (Leviticus ), treating foreigners well (Leviticus ), sharing friendship (Job ), having diplomatic ties (1 Kings ), taking pleasure in the perform of a subordinate (1 Samuel ), and even “loving” inanimate things (Proverbs ).
Second, David’s comparison of his relationship with Jonathan with that of women is probably a reference to his experience with King Saul’s daughters. He was promised one of Saul’s daughters for k
Written by Dr. Dillon Burroughs | Dec 5, AM