2 Samuel 1:19
“Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
World English Bible Classic
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 31:8On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
2 Samuel 1:25How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle! Jonathan was slain on your high places.
Isaiah 4:2In that day, the LORD’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.
Lamentations 2:1How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
Zechariah 11:7So I fed the flock to be slaughtered, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor” and the other I called “Union”, and I fed 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 →