Then all the people came to urge David to eat some food while it was still day, but David vowed saying, “May God do so to me and even more if I taste food or anything else before the sun sets.”
2 Samuel 1:12 - Tree of Life Version and they mourned, wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, for the troops of Adonai and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They mourned and wept for Saul and Jonathan his son, and fasted until evening for the Lord's people and the house of Israel, because of their defeat in battle. American Standard Version (1901) and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword. Common English Bible They mourned and cried and fasted until evening for Saul, his son Jonathan, the LORD’s army, and the whole house of Israel, because they had died by the sword. Catholic Public Domain Version And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, over Saul and over his son Jonathan, and over the people of the Lord and over the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel: because they were fallen by the sword. |
Then all the people came to urge David to eat some food while it was still day, but David vowed saying, “May God do so to me and even more if I taste food or anything else before the sun sets.”
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, or let your heart be glad when he stumbles,
If only I had a travelers’ lodging place in the wilderness, then I might leave my people and get away from them! For they are all adulterers, a bunch of traitors.
drinking wine from bowls, anointing with choice ointments— yet they are not sickened over the breakdown of Joseph.
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I do not burn with indignation?
Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, tenderhearted, humble-minded.
They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted for seven days.
So Saul, his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men died together that same day.