2 Samuel 1:17
Then chanted David this dirge,—over Saul and over Jonathan his son;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
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Genesis 50:11And when the dwellers in the land—the Canaanites—saw the mourning in the threshing-floor of the Buckthorn, they said,—A grievous mourning, this! for the Egyptians. For this cause, was the name thereof called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
2 Samuel 3:33And the king addressed his dirge unto Abner, and said,—As a base man dieth, should Abner have died?
Psalms 35:14Like as for a friend, like as for a brother of mine own, I walked to and fro, As though mourning for a mother, I gloomily bowed myself down.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 1:12-17
11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him: 12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord , and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword. 13 And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite. 14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord… Read the whole commentary →