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2 Samuel 1:19

"Your glory and splendor, O Israel, is slain upon your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Elegy;   Friendship;   Jonathan;   Mourning;   Poetry;   Song;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jonathan;   Saul;   Temple;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - David;   Funeral;   Jonathan;   Saul, king of israel;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Friend, Friendship;   Funeral;   Psalms, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - David;   Gilboa;   Jasher;   Jonathan;   Lamentation;   Lamentations, Book of;   Poetry;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Benjamin;   David;   Lamentations;   Psalms;   Roe;   Samuel, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Book(s);   Burial;   Gilboa;   Music, Instruments, Dancing;   Poetry;   Samuel, Books of;   Saul;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jashar, Book of;   Mourning Customs;   Samuel, Books of;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount gilboa;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dwelling;   Jonathan;   Scripture;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Da'vid;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Hart;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - David;   How;   Poetry, Hebrew;   Psalms, Book of;   Samuel, Books of;   Saul;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - David;   Funeral Oration;   High Place;   Poetry;   Strophic Forms in the Old Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The splendor of Israel lies slain on your heights.How the mighty have fallen!
Hebrew Names Version
Your glory, Yisra'el, is slain on your high places! How are the mighty fallen!
King James Version
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
Lexham English Bible
"The glory of Israel is on your high places; how the mighty have fallen!
English Standard Version
"Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
New Century Version
"Israel, your leaders have been killed on the hills. How the mighty have fallen in battle!
New English Translation
The beauty of Israel lies slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
New American Standard Bible
"Your beauty, Israel, is slaughtered on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
Geneva Bible (1587)
O noble Israel, hee is slane vpon thy hie places: how are the mightie ouerthrowen!
Legacy Standard Bible
"Your beauty, O Israel, is slain on your high places!How have the mighty fallen!
Contemporary English Version
Israel, your famous hero lies dead on the hills, and your mighty warriors have fallen!
Complete Jewish Bible
"Your glory, Isra'el, lies dead on your high places! How the heroes have fallen!
Darby Translation
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
Easy-to-Read Version
"Israel, your beauty was ruined on your hills. Oh, how those heroes fell!
George Lamsa Translation
Israel was swift like a gazelle, and is slain upon her proud hills! How are the mighty fallen!
Good News Translation
"On the hills of Israel our leaders are dead! The bravest of our soldiers have fallen!
Literal Translation
The beauty of Israel is slain on your high places. How are the mighty fallen!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The Eldest in Israel are slayne vpon the heigth of the. How are the Worthies falle?
American Standard Version
Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!
Bible in Basic English
The glory, O Israel, is dead on your high places! How have the great ones been made low!
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O noble Israel, he is slaine vpon thy hie places: howe are the mightie ouerthrowen?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thy beauty, O Israel, upon thy high places is slain! How are the mighty fallen!
King James Version (1611)
The beauty of Israel is slaine vpon thy high places: how are the mightie fallen!
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Set up a pillar, O Israel, for the slain that died upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
English Revised Version
Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! how are the mighty fallen!
Berean Standard Bible
"Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the noble men of Israel ben slayn on thin hillis.
Young's Literal Translation
`The Roebuck, O Israel, On thy high places [is] wounded; How have the mighty fallen!
Update Bible Version
Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How are the mighty fallen!
Webster's Bible Translation
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
World English Bible
Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! How are the mighty fallen!
New King James Version
"The beauty of Israel is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
New Living Translation
Your pride and joy, O Israel, lies dead on the hills! Oh, how the mighty heroes have fallen!
New Life Bible
"O Israel, your beauty is destroyed on your high places! How have the powerful fallen!
New Revised Standard
Your glory, O Israel, lies slain upon your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The beauty of Israel! on thy high plumes - slain! How have fallen - the mighty!
Douay-Rheims Bible
The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen?
Revised Standard Version
"Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!
THE MESSAGE
Oh, oh, Gazelles of Israel, struck down on your hills, the mighty warriors—fallen, fallen! Don't announce it in the city of Gath, don't post the news in the streets of Ashkelon. Don't give those coarse Philistine girls one more excuse for a drunken party! No more dew or rain for you, hills of Gilboa, and not a drop from springs and wells, For there the warriors' shields were dragged through the mud, Saul's shield left there to rot.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Your beauty, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How have the mighty fallen!

Contextual Overview

17Then David sang this dirge (funeral song) over Saul and his son Jonathan, 18and he told them to teach the sons of Judah, the song of the bow. Behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar: 19"Your glory and splendor, O Israel, is slain upon your high places! How the mighty have fallen!20"Tell it not in Gath, Proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, Or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice, The daughters of the uncircumcised (pagans) will exult. 21"O mountains of Gilboa, Let not dew or rain be upon you, nor fields with offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, The shield of Saul, [dry, cracked] not anointed with oil. 22"From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan did not turn back, And the sword of Saul did not return empty. 23"Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely and friends in their lives, And in their death they were not separated; They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions. 24"O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, Who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet, Who put ornaments of gold on your apparel. 25"How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan lies slain upon your high places. 26"I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; You have been a good friend to me. Your love toward me was more wonderful Than the love of women.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

beauty: 2 Samuel 1:23, Deuteronomy 4:7, Deuteronomy 4:8, 1 Samuel 31:8, Isaiah 4:2, Isaiah 53:2, Lamentations 2:1, Zechariah 11:7, Zechariah 11:10

how are: 2 Samuel 1:25, 2 Samuel 1:27, Lamentations 5:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 9:22 - told 2 Samuel 1:17 - lamented Ezekiel 26:17 - How art Obadiah 1:5 - how

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places,.... The high mountains of Gilboa, where Saul their king, and Jonathan his son, a prince of the blood, and natural heir to the crown, and multitudes of young men, the flower of the nation, were wounded and slain. Here begins the lamentation, or the elegiac song:

how are the mighty fallen! mighty men of war, strong and valiant, as Saul and his sons were, and the soldiers in his army.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The beauty ... - i. e. Saul and Jonathan who were the chief ornament and pride of Israel, and slain upon “high places” 2 Samuel 1:25, namely, on Mount Gilboa.


 
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