2 Samuel 1:19
The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 31:8And on the morrow the Philistines came to strip the slain, and they found Saul and his three sons lying in mount Gelboe.
2 Samuel 1:25How are the valiant fallen in battle? Jonathan slain in the high places?
Isaiah 4:2In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to them that shall have escaped of Israel.
Lamentations 2:1Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger!
Zechariah 11:7And I will feed the hock of slaughter for this, O ye poor of the dock. And I took unto me two rods, one I called Beauty, and the other I called a Cord, and I fed the flock.
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 →