2 Samuel 1:25

Howe were the mightie slaine in the mids of the battel! O Ionathan, thou wast slaine in thine hie places.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

In Context

24Yee daughters of Israel, weepe for Saul, which clothed you in skarlet, with pleasures, and hanged ornaments of gold vpon your apparel.

26Wo is me for thee, my brother Ionathan: very kinde hast thou bene vnto me: thy loue to me was wonderfull, passing the loue of women: howe are the mightie ouerthrowen, and the weapons of warre destroyed!

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Cross References

Judges 5:18But the people of Zebulun and Naphtali haue ieopard their liues vnto the death in the hie places of the field.

2 Samuel 1:19O noble Israel, hee is slane vpon thy hie places: how are the mightie ouerthrowen!

Lamentations 5:16The crowne of our head is fallen: wo nowe vnto vs, that we haue sinned.

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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