See also:JONATHAN (Heb. " Yah [weh] gives ")
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Of the many Jewish bearers of this name, three are well known: (I) the See also:grandson of See also:Moses, who was See also:priest at See also:Dan (Judg. xviii
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30)
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The See also:reading See also:Manasseh (see R.V. mg.; obtained by inserting n above the consonantal See also:text in the See also:Hebrew) is apparently intended to suggest that he was the son of that idolatrous See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king
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(2) The eldest son of See also:Saul, who, together with his See also:father, freed See also:Israel from the crushing oppression of the See also:Philistines
(1 Sam. xiii. seq.)
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Both are lauded in an See also:elegy quoted from the See also:Book of See also:Jashar (2 Sam. i.) for their warm mutual love, their heroism, and their labours on behalf of the See also:people
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See also:Jonathan's name is most See also:familiar for the See also:firm friendship which subsisted between him and See also:David (r Sam. xviii
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1–4; xix
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1–7; xx., xxii
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8; See also:xxiii
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16–18), and when he See also:fell at the See also:battle of Gilboa and See also:left behind him a See also:young See also:child (1 Sam. xxxi.; 2 Sam. iv
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4), David took See also:charge of the youth and gave him a See also:place at his See also:court
(2 Sam. ix.)
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See further DAVID, SAUL
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(3) The Maccabee (see See also:JEWS; See also:MACCABEES)
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