2 Samuel 1:19
“Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 31:8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
2 Samuel 1:25How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
Isaiah 4:2On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.
Lamentations 2:1How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
Zechariah 11:7So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured 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 →