2 Samuel 1:26
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan. Very pleasant thou have been to me. Thy love to me was wonderful, exceeding the love of women.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
25How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.
27How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:2And Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill thee. Now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself in the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself.
1 Samuel 20:41And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of [a place] toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. And they kissed each other, and wept one with another until David surpassed [him].
Proverbs 18:24He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 1:18-27
David's Lamentation for Jonathan. ( b. c. 1055.) 17 And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son: 18 (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.) 19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! 20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. 21 Ye mountains of Gilboa,… Read the whole commentary →