2 Samuel 1:19
Set up a pillar, O Israel, for the slain that died upon thy high places: 1 How are the mighty fallen! 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
In Context
18And he gave orders to teach it the sons of Judah: behold, it is written in the book of Right. 1
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 Gilboa.
2 Samuel 1:25How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! 1 O Jonathan, even the slain ones upon thy high places! 1
Isaiah 4:2And in that day God shall shine gloriously in counsel on the earth, to exalt and glorify the remnant of Israel.
Lamentations 2:1How has the Lord darkened in his wrath 1 The daughter of Zion! 1 He has cast down the glory of Israel 1 From heaven to earth, 1 And has not remembered his footstool. 1
Zechariah 11:7And I will tend the flock of slaughter in the land of Canaan: 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 →