2 Samuel 1:25

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
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How: 2 Samuel 1:19, 2 Samuel 1:27, Lamentations 5:16, thou was, Judges 5:18, 1 Samuel 14:13-15

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 26:17 - How art

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 1:8
God named the air "sky." Evening passed, and morning came. This was the second day.

Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse "sky." There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament Heaven: and the evening and the morning were the second day.

Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse [of sky] heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.

Genesis 1:8
And God clepide the firmament, heuene. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, the secounde dai.

Genesis 1:8
And God calleth to the expanse `Heavens;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day second.

Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning-the second day.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!.... The mighty and valiant men of war, the common soldiers as well as their general officers, whose loss David mourns, and the repetition of shows how much it affected him:

O Jonathan, [thou wast] slain in thine high places; in the high places of the land of Israel, the mountains of Gilboa, which though high, and in his own country, could not protect him from his enemies, and from falling by their hands: he who had been so valiant and victorious a prince, and yet he fell, not in an enemy's country, but his own.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How are the mighty fallen - The recurrenee of the same idea 2 Samuel 1:19, 2 Samuel 1:25, 2 Samuel 1:27 is perfectly congenial to the nature of elegy, since grief is fond of dwelling upon the particular objects of the passion, and frequently repeating them. By unanimous consent this is considered one of the most beautiful odes in the Bible, and the generosity of David in thus mourning for his enemy and persecutor, Saul, enhances the effect upon the mind of the reader.