2 Samuel 1:25
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
2 Samuel 1:25 in other translations
| BSB | How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights. |
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| WEB | How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle! Jonathan was slain on your high places. |
| ASV | How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places. |
| YLT | How have the mighty fallen In the midst of the battle! Jonathan! on thy high places wounded! |
| DARBY | How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places. |
| BBE | How have the great ones been made low in the fight! Jonathan is dead on your high places. |
| Webster | How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan thou wast slain in thy high places. |
What does 2 Samuel 1:25 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Samuel 1:24-27
24-27. Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, &c.--The fondness for dress, which anciently distinguished Oriental women, is their characteristic still. It appears in their love of bright, gay, and divers colors, in profuse display of ornaments, and in various other forms. The inmost depths of the poet's feeling are stirred, and his amiable disposition appears in the…
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…
2 Samuel 1:25 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Samuel 1:25
- 2 Samuel 1:19
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
- 2 Samuel 1:27
How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
- Judges 5:18
Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high places of the field.
- 1 Samuel 14:13-15
And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him. And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow. And there was trembling in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling.
- Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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19,27; La 5:16
thou was.
Jud 5:18; 1Sa 14:13-15
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Context
- 2 Samuel 1:24
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
- 2 Samuel 1:25
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
- 2 Samuel 1:26
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
2 Samuel 1:25 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¡Cómo han caído los valientes en medio de la batalla! ¡Jonathán, muerto en tus alturas! |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Comment les hommes forts sont-ils tombés au milieu de la bataille! Comment Jonathan a-t-il été tué sur tes hauts lieux! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wie sind die Helden gefallen mitten im Streit! Wie ist Jonathan erschlagen auf deinen Höhen! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quomodo ceciderunt fortes in prælio? Jonathas in excelsis tuis occisus est? |