2 Samuel 1:19

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.

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!

Amplified Bible
"Your glory and splendor, O Israel, is slain upon 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!

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 lament over Saul and his son Jonathan, and gave orders that everyone in Judah learn it by heart. Yes, it's even inscribed in The Book of Jashar. ¹⁹Oh, 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. ²² Jonathan's bow was bold— the bigger they were the harder they fell. Saul's sword was fearless— once out of the scabbard, nothing could stop it. ²³ Saul and Jonathan—beloved, beautiful! Together in life, together in death. Swifter than plummeting eagles, stronger than proud lions. ²⁴Women of Israel, weep for Saul. He dressed you in finest cottons and silks, spared no expense in making you elegant. The mighty warriors—fallen, fallen in the middle of the fight! Jonathan—struck down on your hills! ²⁶ O my dear brother Jonathan, I'm crushed by your death. Your friendship was a miracle-wonder, love far exceeding anything I've known— or ever hope to know. ²⁷ The mighty warriors—fallen, fallen. And the arms of war broken to bits.

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.