2 Samuel 1:19
O noble Israel, hee is slane vpon thy hie places: how are the mightie ouerthrowen!
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
In Context
18(Also he bade them teach the children of Iudah to shoote, as it is written in the booke of Iasher)
Cross References
1 Samuel 31:8And on the morowe when the Philistims were come to spoyle them that were slaine, they founde Saul and his three sonnes lying in mount Gilboa,
2 Samuel 1:25Howe were the mightie slaine in the mids of the battel! O Ionathan, thou wast slaine in thine hie places.
Isaiah 4:2In that day shall the budde of the Lord bee beautifull and glorious, and the fruite of the earth shalbe excellent and pleasant for them that are escaped of Israel.
Lamentations 2:1How hath the Lord darkened the daughter of Zion in his wrath! and hath cast downe from heauen vnto the earth the beautie of Israel, and remembred not his footestoole in the day of his wrath!
Zechariah 11:7For I fed the sheepe of slaughter, euen the poore of the flocke, and I tooke vnto me two staues: the one I called Beautie, and the other I called Bandes, and I fed the sheepe.
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 →