answers: Jesse
context: some chilled dudes." David and Jonathan David (Hebrew: ; "Dāwīḏ" or "David") and Jonathan (Hebrew: ; "Yəhōnāṯān" or "Yehonatan") were heroic figures of the Kingdom of Israel, who formed a covenant of friendship recorded in the books of Samuel. Jonathan was the son of Saul, king of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, and David was the son of Jesse of Bethlehem, of the tribe of Judah, and Jonathan's presumed rival for the crown. David became king. The covenant the two men had formed eventually led to David, after Jonathan's death, graciously seating Jonathan's son Mephibosheth at his own royal </s> the death of his favourite son: "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!" until Joab persuades him to recover from "the extravagance of his grief" and to fulfil his duty to his people. David returns to Gilgal and is escorted across the River Jordan and back to Jerusalem by the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. When David is old and bedridden, Adonijah, his eldest surviving son and natural heir, declares himself king. Bathsheba and Nathan go to David and obtain his agreement to crown Bathsheba's </s> cannot bring himself to punish his son, and so later at a banquet, Absalom (Thamar's full-brother) kills Amnon in revenge. Realizing what he has done, he flees to the land of Geshur, ruled by Talmai. Joab, with the help of a wise women from Tuqu', manages to convince David to recall his son; Joab then brings Absalom back to Jerusalem, where he lives for two years without coming into the king’s presence. Absalom is unable to convince Joab to let him see the king, and so he burns the harvest of Joab. Eventually, he makes his way before his father
question: in the bible who was david 's father