27How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years: …
And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
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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