Jonathan and David from Bible were what relation?

Answer 1

There are several Jonathan's mentioned in connection with David in The Bible:

*A son of priest Abiathar who served as a courier for David (2Samuel 15:27-29)

*A nephew, the son of King David's brother Shimea (2Samuel 21:20, 21)

*Uzziah's son , in charge of David's "treasures in the field" (1Chronicles 27:25)

*But of course, the most famous JONATHAN was David's best friend, and favorite son of King Saul. (1Samuel 14:49, 50). This is the one I assume you are referring to.

David and this Jonathan would be related distantly:

Abraham and Sarah had Isaac

Isaac and Rebekah had Jacob.

Jacob had twelve sons, who became the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel....initially: Reu′ben, Sim′e‧on, Le′vi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Is′sa‧char, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin.

Jonathan, the son of King Saul, was from the tribe ofBenjamin,

David was from the tribe ofJudah,

and BOTH came along many generations and hundreds of years after the tribes' beginnings, so their family relationship was quite distant....very very distant cousins, perhaps?

Jonathan was the son of the first King of Israel, and nearly 60 when he died in about 1078 B.C.E., at which time, David was 30 (Numbers 1:3) (1 Samuel 31:2; 2 Samuel 5:4)

Of course, if you go back far enough, ALL of us are related.