Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 39 · 1889
The Love of Jonathan, and the Love of Jesus
2 Samuel 1:26
DAVID was a poet; and when he found that his best-beloved friend had fallen by the arrows of the Philistines, he wept greatly, and then he cheered his heart by writing the very fine elegy, which in after years was called “The Song of the Bow.” Even if David’s lamentation is judged according to the…