2 Samuel 1 · Verse 19

2 Samuel 1:19

The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
2 Samuel 1:19, King James Version

2 Samuel 1:19 in other translations

BSB“Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
WEB“Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
ASVThy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!
YLT‘The Roebuck, O Israel, On thy high places is wounded; How have the mighty fallen!
DARBYThe beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
BBEThe glory, O Israel, is dead on your high places! How have the great ones been made low!
WebsterThe beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

What does 2 Samuel 1:19 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
19. The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places--literally, "the gazelle" or "antelope of Israel." In Eastern countries, that animal is the chosen type of beauty and symmetrical elegance of form. how are the mighty fallen!--This forms the chorus.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Samuel 1:17-27

Kasheth, or "the bow," probably was the title of this mournful, funeral song. David does not commend Saul for what he was not; and says nothing of his piety or goodness. Jonathan was a dutiful son, Saul an affectionate father, therefore dear to each other. David had reason to say, that Jonathan's love to him was wonderful. Next to the love between Christ and his people, that affection which springs form it, produces…

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2 Samuel 1:19 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הַצְּבִי֙ha.tze.Vithe beautyH6643
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElO IsraelH3478
עַל\־'al-onH5921
בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָba.mo.Tei.khahigh places yourH1116
חָלָ֑לcha.Lal[is] slainH2491
אֵ֖יךְ'eikhhow!H349
נָפְל֥וּna.fe.Luthey have fallenH5307
גִבּוֹרִֽים\׃gi.bo.Rim[the] mighty [ones]H1368

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Cross references for 2 Samuel 1:19

  • 2 Samuel 1:27

    How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

  • Deuteronomy 4:7-8

    For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

  • 2 Samuel 1:25

    How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.

  • Lamentations 5:16

    The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

  • Lamentations 2:1

    How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

  • 1 Samuel 31:8

    And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.

  • Isaiah 4:2

    In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.

  • Zechariah 11:10

    And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.

  • 2 Samuel 1:23

    Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.

  • Zechariah 11:7

    And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.

  • Isaiah 53:2

    For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
beauty.
23; De 4:7,8; 1Sa 31:8; Isa 4:2; 53:2; La 2:1; Zec 11:7,10
how are.
25,27; La 5:16

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Context

  • 2 Samuel 1:18

    (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)

  • 2 Samuel 1:19

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

  • 2 Samuel 1:20

    Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

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2 Samuel 1:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
¡Perecido ha la gloria de Israel sobre tus montañas! ¡Cómo han caído los valientes!
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Ton ornement, ô Israël, est tué sur tes hauts lieux. Comment les hommes forts sont-ils tombés!
German
Elberfelder 1871
Deine Zierde, Israel, ist erschlagen auf deinen Höhen! wie sind die Helden gefallen!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Inclyti Israël super montes tuos interfecti sunt: quomodo ceciderunt fortes?