2 Samuel 1:26
I 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.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
25How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan upon thy high places is slain!
27How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
Cross References
1 Samuel 19:2And Jonathan told David, saying: 'Saul my father seeketh to slay 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 down three times; and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.
Proverbs 18:24There are friends that one hath to his own hurt; but there is a friend that sticketh 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 →