Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.
2 Samuel 1:19 - Y'all Version Bible “Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: How are the mighty fallen! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your glory, O Israel, is slain upon your high places. How have the mighty fallen! American Standard Version (1901) Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen! Common English Bible Oh, no, Israel! Your prince lies dead on your heights. Look how the mighty warriors have fallen! Catholic Public Domain Version The illustrious of Israel have been killed upon your mountains. How could the valiant have fallen? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: How are the valiant fallen? |
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.
How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle! Jonathan was slain on your high places.
In that day, the branch of YHWH will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.
For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
I took my staff Favor and cut it apart, that I might break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples.
So I fed the flock to be slaughtered, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor” and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.
On the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.