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Originally posted by Pig Iron:
Best friends.....you've never hugged or cried for a best friend? In america we don't kiss but elsewhere they do. And it didn't say jonathan dropped his loin cloth.

They were torn by family, by god's blessing on david, and their friendship was basically doomed..as Jonathan said basically that their families would never be able to co-exist and they wept...The love those two shared is contrasted to the evil Saul had in his heart...
If this story occurred outside the Bible would you be surprised to see loin cloths coming off? Hugging as a greeting yes but beyond that its usually foreplay IMHO