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JONATHAN (Heb. " Yah [weh] gives ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 497 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JONATHAN (Heb. " Yah [weh] gives ")  . 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 . 30) . 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 . (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.) . 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 . 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 . 1–4; xix . 1–7; xx., xxii . 8; See also:xxiii . 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 . 4), David took See also:charge of the youth and gave him a See also:place at his See also:court (2 Sam. ix.) .

See further DAVID, SAUL . (3) The Maccabee (see See also:

JEWS; See also:MACCABEES) .

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