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2Samuel 1
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David Mourns for Saul and Jonathan

1Shortly after Saul had died, David returned from defeating the Amalekites and remained in Ziklag for two days.H310H4194H7586H1732H7725H5221H6002H1732H3427H8147H3117H6860
2The next day, a man escaped from Saul's camp! With torn clothes and dirty hair, he approached David, fell to the ground, and bowed down to him.H7992H3117H376H935H4264H7586H899H7167H127H7218H935H1732H5307H776H7812
3David asked him, "Where did you come from?He answered him, "I just escaped from Israel's encampment."H1732H559H935H559H4264H3478H4422
4David continued questioning him, "How did things go?Please tell me!" He replied, "The army has fled the battlefield, many of the army are wounded or have died, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead."H1732H559H4100H1697H5046H559H5971H5127H4421H7235H5971H5307H4191H7586H3083H1121H4191
5David asked the young man who related the story, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"H1732H559H5288H5046H3045H7586H3083H1121H4191
6The young man who had been relating the story answered, "I happened to be on Mount Gilboa and there was Saul, leaning on his spear! Meanwhile, the chariots and horsemen were rapidly drawing near.H5288H5046H559H7136H7122H2022H1533H7586H8172H2595H7393H1167H6571H1692
7Saul glanced behind him, saw me, and called out to me, so I replied, 'Here I am!'H6437H310H7200H7121H559
8He asked me, 'Who are you?' So I answered him, 'I'm an Amalekite!'H559H559H6003
9He begged me, 'Please - come stand here next to me and kill me, because I'm still alive.'H559H5975H4191H7661H270H5315
10So I stood next to him and killed him, because I knew that he wouldn't live after he had fallen. I took the crown that had been on his head, along with the bracelet that had been on his arm, and I have brought them to your majesty."H5975H4191H3045H2421H310H5307H3947H5145H7218H685H2220H935H113
11On hearing this, David grabbed his clothes and tore them, as did all the men who were attending to him.H1732H2388H899H7167H582
12They mourned and wept, and then decided to fast until dusk for Saul, for his son Jonathan, for the army of the Lord, and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen in battle.H5594H1058H6684H6153H7586H3083H1121H5971H3068H1004H3478H5307H2719
13Meanwhile, David asked the young man who had told him the story, "Where are you from?" He answered, "I'm an Amalekite, the son of a foreign man."H1732H559H5288H5046H559H1121H376H1616H6003
14At this David asked him, "How is it that you weren't afraid to raise your hand to strike the Lord's anointed?"H1732H559H3372H7971H3027H7843H3068H4899
15Then David called out to one of his young men and ordered him, "Go up to him and cut him down!" So he attacked him and killed him.H1732H7121H259H5288H559H5066H6293H5221H4191
16David told him, "Your blood is on your own head, because your own words testified against you! After all, you said, 'I myself have killed the Lord's anointed!'"H1732H559H1818H7218H6310H6030H559H4191H3068H4899

David’s Song for Saul and Jonathan

17So David intoned this song of lament about Saul and his son Jonathan,H1732H6969H7015H7586H3083H1121
18and he gave orders to teach the descendents of Judah the art of warfare, as is recorded in the Book of Jashar:H559H3925H1121H3063H7198H3789H5612H3477
19"Your beauty, Israel, lies slain on your high places! O, how the valiant have fallen!H6643H3478H2491H1116H1368H5307
20Don't make it known in Gath! Don't declare it in the avenues of Ashkelon! Otherwise, the daughters of Philistia will rejoice; and the daughters of the uncircumcised will triumph.H5046H1661H1319H2351H831H1323H6430H8055H1323H6189H5937
21Mountains of Gilboa, let no dew or rain fall on you, and may none of your fields be filled with plenty, because in that place the shield of the valiant ones was defiled, the shield of Saul without an anointing with oil.H2022H1533H2919H4306H7704H8641H4043H1368H1602H4043H7586H4899H8081
22From the blood of the slain, from the blood of the valiant, Jonathan's bow would not retreat nor would Saul's sword return empty.H1818H2491H2459H1368H7198H3083H7734H268H2719H7586H7725H7387
23Saul and Jonathan, loved and handsome in life, in death were not separated. Swifter than eagles they were, and more valiant than lions.H7586H3083H157H5273H2416H4194H6504H7043H5404H1396H738
24Daughters of Israel, weep over Saul! He clothed you in scarlet luxury and decorated your garments with gold.H1323H3478H1058H7586H3847H8144H5730H5927H5716H2091H3830
25How have the valiant fallen in the tumult of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your high places.H1368H5307H8432H4421H3083H2491H1116
26I am in distress for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been most kind to me. Your love for me was extraordinary - beyond love from women.H6887H251H3083H3966H5276H160H6381H160H802
27How the valiant have fallen! How the weapons of war are destroyed!"H1368H5307H3627H4421H6


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