2 Samuel 1:17 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

2 Samuel 1:17

15 Then ^aDavid called one of the young men and said, “Go near, and execute him!” And he struck him so that he died.

16 So David said to him, ^a“Your blood is on your own head, for ^byour own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the Lord’s anointed.’ ”

The Song of the Bow

17 Then David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

18 ^aand he told them to teach the children of Judah the Song of the Bow; indeed it is written ^bin the Book of Jasher:

19 “The beauty of Israel is slain on your high places!
^aHow the mighty have fallen!

20 ^aTell it not in Gath,
Proclaim it not in the streets of ^bAshkelon—
Lest ^cthe daughters of the Philistines rejoice,
Lest the daughters of ^dthe uncircumcised triumph.

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DAVID LAMENTS SAUL AND JONATHAN. (II Samuel 1:17-27)

David lamented with this lamentation—It has always been customary for Eastern people, on the death of great kings and warriors, to celebrate their qualities and deeds in funeral songs. This inimitable pathetic elegy is supposed by many writers to have become a national war song, and to have been taught to the young Israelites under the name of "The Bow," in conformity with the practice of Hebrew and many classical writers in giving titles to their songs from the principal theme (Psalms 22:1; Psalms 56:1; Psalms 60:1; Psalms 80:1; Psalms 100:1). Although the words "the use of" are a supplement by our translators, they may be rightly introduced, for the natural sense of this parenthetical verse is, that David took immediate measures for instructing the people in the knowledge and practice of archery, their great inferiority to the enemy in this military arm having been the main cause of the late national disaster.

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