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.

21 “O ^amountains of Gilboa,
^bLet there be no dew nor rain upon you,
Nor fields of offerings.
For the shield of the mighty is¹ cast away there!
The shield of Saul, not ^canointed with oil.

22 From the blood of the slain,
From the fat of the mighty,
^aThe bow of Jonathan did not turn back,
And the sword of Saul did not return empty.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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2 Samuel 1:17

The words lamented and lamentation must be understood in the technical sense of a funeral dirge or mournful elegy. (See similar dirges in II Samuel 3:33-34; and II Chronicles 35:25.) This and the brief stanza on the death of Abner are the only specimens preserved to us of David' s secular poetry.

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