2 Samuel 1:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:

2 Samuel 1:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 13:31
Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.
Genesis 37:29
And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
2 Samuel 3:31
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
Genesis 37:34
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
Romans 12:15
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

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Burial Dead (people)Dress Hair Mourning Rending Sackcloth

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-16)

Here is, I. David’s reception of these tidings. So far was he from falling into a transport of joy, as the Amalekite expected, that he fell into a passion of weeping, rent his clothes (2 Sam. 1:11), mourned and fasted (2 Sam. 1:12), not only for his people Israel and Jonathan his friend but for Saul his enemy. This he did, not only as a man of honour, in observance of that decorum which forbids us…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

2-12. a man came out of the camp from Saul--As the narrative of Saul’s death, given in the last chapter, is inspired, it must be considered the true account, and the Amalekite’s story a fiction of his own, invented to ingratiate himself with David, the presumptive successor to the throne. David’s question, “How went the matter?” evinces the deep interest he took in the war, an interest that sprang…