2 Samuel 1:15

And David called one of his young men, and said, Go and fall upon him: and he struck him, and he died.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.

In Context

14And David said to him, How was it you were not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the anointed of the Lord?

16And David said to him, Your blood be upon your own head; for your mouth has + 1:16 Gr. answered. testified against you, saying, I have slain the anointed of the Lord.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 22:17And the king said to the footmen that attended on him, Draw near and kill the priests of the Lord, because their hand is with David, and because they knew that he + 22:17 Gr. flees. fled, and they did not inform me. But the servants of the king would not lift their hands to fall upon the priest of the Lord.

1 Kings 2:25So king Solomon sent by the hand of Banaeas the son of Jodae, and he killed him, and Adonias died in that day.

Proverbs 11:18An ungodly man performs unrighteous works: but the seed of the righteous is a reward of truth.

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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