2 Samuel 1:19
Good News Translation
"On the hills of Israel our leaders are dead! The bravest of our soldiers have fallen!

New Revised Standard Version
Your glory, O Israel, lies slain upon your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

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

New American Bible
Alas! the glory of Israel, slain upon your heights! How can the warriors have fallen!

Douay-Rheims Bible
The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen?

beauty

2 Samuel 1:23 Saul and Jonathan, lovely, and comely in their life, even in death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions.

Deuteronomy 4:7,8 Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions. . . .

1 Samuel 31:8 And on the morrow the Philistines came to strip the slain, and they found Saul and his three sons lying in mount Gelboe.

Isaiah 4:2 In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to them that shall have escaped of Israel.

Isaiah 53:2 And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him:

Lamentations 2:1 Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Zechariah 11:7,10 And I will feed the flock of slaughter for this, O ye poor of the flock. And I took unto me two rods, one I called Beauty, and the other I called a Cord, and I fed the flock. . . .

how are

2 Samuel 1:25,27 How are the valiant fallen in battle? Jonathan slain in the high places? . . .

Lamentations 5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.

Context
David's Song for Saul and Jonathan
18(Also he commanded that they should teach the children of Juda the use of the bow, as it is written in the book of the just.) And he said: Consider, O Israel, for them that are dead, wounded on thy high places. 19The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen?20Tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon: lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:25
How are the valiant fallen in battle? Jonathan slain in the high places?

2 Samuel 1:27
How are the valiant fallen, and the weapons of war perished?

2 Samuel 1:18
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