2 Samuel 1:19 ““Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have…”

2 Samuel 1:19

“Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

World English Bible

“Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

American Standard Version

Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!

Geneva Bible 1599

O noble Israel, hee is slane vpon thy hie places: how are the mightie ouerthrowen!

Darby Translation

The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

Young's Literal Translation

'The Roebuck, O Israel, On thy high places [is] wounded; How have the mighty fallen!

Bible in Basic English

The glory, O Israel, is dead on your high places! How have the great ones been made low!

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Cross references

“beauty”

2 Samuel 1:23 1 Samuel 31:8 Isaiah 4:2 Lamentations 2:1 Zechariah 11:7 Zechariah 11:10

2 Samuel 1:23 · BSB

Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.

1 Samuel 31:8 · BSB

The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

Isaiah 4:2 · BSB

On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.

Lamentations 2:1 · BSB

How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.

Zechariah 11:7 · BSB

So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.

Zechariah 11:10 · BSB

Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.

“how are”

2 Samuel 1:27 2 Samuel 1:25 Lamentations 5:16

2 Samuel 1:27 · BSB

How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!”

2 Samuel 1:25 · BSB

How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.

Lamentations 5:16 · BSB

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

18and he ordered that the sons of Judah be taught the Song of the Bow. It is written in the Book of Jashar:

20Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

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