Judges 16:15 BSB
Old Testament
“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she asked, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!”
Ruth 4:15 BSB
Old Testament
He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
1 Samuel 1:5 BSB
Old Testament
But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.
1 Samuel 18:1 BSB
Old Testament
After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.
1 Samuel 18:3 BSB
Old Testament
Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.
1 Samuel 18:16 BSB
Old Testament
But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he was leading them out to battle and back.
1 Samuel 18:20 BSB
Old Testament
Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.
1 Samuel 18:22 BSB
Old Testament
Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.’”
1 Samuel 18:28 BSB
Old Testament
When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,
1 Samuel 20:17 BSB
Old Testament
And Jonathan had David reaffirm his vow out of love for him, for Jonathan loved David as he loved himself.
2 Samuel 1:23 BSB
Old Testament
Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
2 Samuel 1:26 BSB
Old Testament
I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.
2 Samuel 12:24 BSB
Old Testament
Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child
2 Samuel 12:25 BSB
Old Testament
and sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.
2 Samuel 13:1 BSB
Old Testament
After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.
2 Samuel 13:4 BSB
Old Testament
so he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
2 Samuel 13:15 BSB
Old Testament
Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”
2 Samuel 19:6 BSB
Old Testament
You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you!
1 Kings 3:3 BSB
Old Testament
And Solomon loved the LORD and walked in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
1 Kings 10:9 BSB
Old Testament
Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”
1 Kings 11:1 BSB
Old Testament
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
1 Kings 11:2 BSB
Old Testament
These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
2 Chronicles 2:11 BSB
Old Testament
Then Hiram king of Tyre wrote a letter in reply to Solomon: “Because the LORD loves His people, He has set you over them as king.”
2 Chronicles 9:8 BSB
Old Testament
Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on His throne to be king for the LORD your God. Because your God loved Israel enough to establish them forever, He has made you king over them to carry out justice and righteousness.”
2 Chronicles 11:21 BSB
Old Testament
Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.