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2 Samuel 1:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Israel, your famous hero lies dead on the hills, and your mighty warriors have fallen!

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It was easy to love Saul and Jonathan. Together in life, together in death, they were faster than eagles and stronger than lions.

Our warriors have fallen in the heat of battle, and Jonathan lies dead on the hills of Gilboa.

Our warriors have fallen, and their weapons are destroyed.

The time is coming when the LORD will make his land fruitful and glorious again, and the people of Israel who survive will take great pride in what the land produces.

Like a young plant or a root that sprouts in dry ground, the servant grew up obeying the LORD. He wasn't some handsome king. Nothing about the way he looked made him attractive to us.

The Lord was angry! So he disgraced Zion though it was Israel's pride and his own place of rest. In his anger he threw Zion down from heaven to earth.

Zion's glory has disappeared! And we are doomed because of our sins.

On that same day, I broke the stick named “Mercy” to show that the LORD had cancelled his agreement with all people.

So I became a shepherd of those sheep doomed to be slaughtered by the sheep dealers. And I gave names to the two sticks I used for tending the sheep: one of them was named “Mercy” and the other “Unity”.

The day after the battle, when the Philistines returned to the battlefield to take the weapons of the dead Israelite soldiers, they found Saul and his three sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa.




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