2 Samuel 1:25

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan upon thy high places is slain!

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

In Context

24Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

26I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant hast thou been unto me; wonderful was thy love to me, passing the love of women.

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Cross References

Judges 5:18Zebulun is a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death, and Naphtali, upon the high places of the field.

2 Samuel 1:19Thy beauty, O Israel, upon thy high places is slain! How are the mighty fallen!

Lamentations 5:16The crown is fallen from our head; woe unto us! for we have sinned.

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 →

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