2 Samuel 1:19
"Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places!How the mighty have fallen!
New Heart English 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 31:8It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
2 Samuel 1:25How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!Jonathan is 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 2:1ALEPHHow the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!He has cast down from heaven to the earth the splendor of Israel,and hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.BET
Zechariah 11:7So I fed the flock of slaughter, 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 →