2 Samuel 1:25 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁵How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

2 Samuel 1:25 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 1:19
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
2 Samuel 1:27
How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
Judges 5:18
Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
1 Samuel 14:13-15
And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him. …

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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…

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

(vv. 25)

24-27. Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, &c.--The fondness for dress, which anciently distinguished Oriental women, is their characteristic still. It appears in their love of bright, gay, and divers colors, in profuse display of ornaments, and in various other forms. The inmost depths of the poet’s feeling are stirred, and his amiable disposit…