19The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
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How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? …
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-27)When David had rent his clothes, mourned, and wept, and fasted, for the death of Saul, and done justice upon him who made himself guilty of it, one would think he had made full payment of the debt of honour he owed to his memory; yet this is not all: we have here a poem he wrote on that occasion; for he was a great master of his pen as well as of his sword. By this elegy he designed both to expres…
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