2 Samuel 1:23

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son. ¹⁷ Then David composed a funeral song for Saul and Jonathan, ¹⁷ And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son: ¹⁷ David sang a funeral song about Saul and his son Jonathan, ¹⁷ Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan. ¹⁷ And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son: ¹⁷ David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son ¹⁷Then David sang this dirge (funeral song) over Saul and his son Jonathan, ¹⁷ And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son, ¹⁷ Forsooth Dauid biweilide sych a weilyng on Saul, and on Jonathas, his sone;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

pleasant: or, sweet, 1 Samuel 18:1, 1 Samuel 20:2

they were: 1 Samuel 31:1-5

swifter: 2 Samuel 2:18, Deuteronomy 28:49, 1 Chronicles 12:8, Job 9:26, Jeremiah 4:13, Lamentations 4:19

stronger: 2 Samuel 23:20, Judges 14:18, Proverbs 30:30

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 1:19 - beauty 2 Samuel 17:10 - heart 1 Chronicles 11:22 - lionlike Psalms 147:10 - he taketh Daniel 7:4 - like Joel 2:7 - They shall run Philippians 4:8 - are lovely Revelation 4:7 - a flying

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Saul and Jonathan [were] lovely and pleasant in their lives,.... To one another, had no quarrel or difference with each other, only on the account of David; otherwise they agreed together in the court, and in the camp, in their councils, and in their conduct:

and in their death they were not divided; neither from the people, nor from one another; Jonathan stuck close by his father to the last; which is observed to clear him from any imputation of conspiracy against him:

they were swifter than eagles; in the quick dispatch of business, in hasting to the relief of the distressed, as Saul to the men of Jabeshgilead, and in the pursuit of their enemies, as of the Philistines, more than once:

they were stronger than lions; fighting with their enemies, who became an case prey to them; and what is stronger than a lion among beasts?

Judges 14:18; or swifter than an eagle among birds, which is said to cut the air with its wings x?

x Aelian. Hist. Animal. l. 15. c. 22. Vid. Ciceron. de Divinatione, l. 2. prope finem.