2 Samuel 1:17

And David laments with this lamentation over Saul, and over his son Jonathan;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

In Context

16and David says to him, “Your blood [is] on your own head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I put to death the anointed of YHWH.”

18and he says to teach the sons of Judah “The Bow”; behold, it is written on the Scroll of the Upright:

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Cross References

Genesis 50:11and the inhabitant of the land, the Canaanite, sees the mourning in the threshing-floor of Atad and says, “A grievous mourning [is] this to the Egyptians”; therefore [one] has called its name “The mourning of the Egyptians,” which [is] beyond the Jordan.

2 Samuel 3:33and the king laments for Abner and says, “Does Abner die as the death of a fool?

Psalms 35:14As [if] a friend, as [if] my brother, || I habitually walked, || As a mourner for a mother, || I have bowed down mourning.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 1:12-17

11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him: 12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord , and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword. 13 And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite. 14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord… Read the whole commentary →

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