2 Samuel 1:19
+ 1:19 The LXX. take הצבי as from כיצב, the A. V. from צבי.Set up a pillar, O Israel, for + 1:19 Two words here are used, as is often the case in the LXX. to express one. viz. τεθηκότων and τραυματτιῶν to express חלל.the slain that died upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
Brenton Septuagint
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 it came to pass on the morrow that the Philistines come to strip the dead, and they find Saul and his three sons fallen on the mountains of Gelbue.
2 Samuel 1:25How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, even the slain ones upon thy high places!
Isaiah 4:2And in that day God shall shine gloriously in counsel on the earth, to exalt and glorify the remnant of Israel.
Lamentations 2:1Aleph. How has the Lord darkened in his wrath the daughter of Sion! he has cast down the glory of Israel from heaven to earth, and has not remembered his footstool.
Zechariah 11:7And I will tend the flock of slaughter in the land of Chanaan: and I will take for myself two rods; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Line; and I will tend 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 →