2 Samuel 1:24

Daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, 1 Who clothed you with scarlet together with your adorning, 1 Who added golden ornaments to your apparel. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

23Saul and Jonathan, the beloved and the beautiful, were not divided: 1 Comely were they in their life, and in their death they were not divided: 1 They were swifter than eagles, 1 And they were stronger than lions. 1

25How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! 1 O Jonathan, even the slain ones upon thy high places! 1

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Cross References

Psalms 68:12And I put on sackcloth for my covering; 1 And I became a proverb to them. 1

Isaiah 3:16Thus saith the Lord, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and have walked with an outstretched neck, and with winking of the eyes, and motion of the feet, at the same time drawing their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet:

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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