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This author is not up to speed. David's love for Jonathan was the love between two soldiers who had fought many battles together. Stu Webber has addressed this verse in his books. For those of you not familiar with Stu Webber, he was a special ops guy in Vietnam. He talks about the bond that grows between men in combat. I am sure there are many on this forum who have seen combat who can attest to the that. The quoted verse, however, is often cited by those with the homosexual agenda in an effort to paint David as a homosexual. Such a characterization is completely out of context and incorrect.

Thank you for pointing that out. If I may be permitted to cite a non-Biblical source for a moment:

"You're leaving me," she asserted in a flat voice.
"Yes, Bonny Bones, I must ride south like the wind," Fafhrd admitted hurriedly. "A lifelong comrade's in immense peril."
"A man, of course," she divined with the same tonelessness. "Even Ghoulish men save their greatest love for their male swordmates."
"It's a different sort of love," Fafhrd started to argue as he untied the mare from the thorn tree . . .
From The Swords of Lankhmar, by Fritz Leiber.

I suppose that the gay lobby would have us believe that Leiber was actually hinting that Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser were secret lovers.

Of course, any attempt to make King David out to be gay ignores the fact that his great weakness as portrayed in the Bible was not for men but for women. He had numerous wives, and the sin that almost brought down his kingdom was his affair with Bathsheba and subsequent murder-by-proxy of her husband.

Oi vey.

Excellent post!

Another fact that people quoting the verses from II Samuel regarding David and Jonathan's relationship fail to point out is that David had 300 wives and 700 concubines. I defy any claim that a man intimately surrounded by 1,000 women had a homosexual tendency of any kind.