“ The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! ”
The beauty ... - i. e. Saul and Jonathan who were the chief ornament and pride of Israel, and slain upon “high places” 2 Samuel 1:25 , namely, on Mount Gilboa.
The beauty of Israel is (h) slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! (h) Meaning Saul.
David's Lament over Saul and Jonathan. This poem is almost universally accepted as the work of David. It was included in the Book of Jashar ( Joshua 10:12 ff., p. 45), and probably borrowed from t...
beauty . gazelle. Symbolic of beauty and grace.
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places— As Jonathan's death touched David the nearest, it was natural that he should be the first object of his lamentation. Beauty or glory of Israel,...
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! The beauty of Israel - literally, the gazelle or antelope of Israel (cf. 2 Samuel 2:18 ; 1 Chronicles 12:8 ;...
The Lament of David over Saul and Jonathan 1. There is no break between the two books of Samuel; they really form one continuous narrative. This v. is a continuation of 1 Samuel 30 , which descri...
The beauty of Israel, in the sense of the glory or ornament of Israel, referring to Saul and Jonathan. The rendering of the Syriac and some commentators, “the gazelle,” as a poetic name for Jonatha...
CHAPTER I. DAVD'S LAMENT FOR SAUL AND JONATHAN. 2 Samuel 1:1-27 . DAVID had returned to Ziklag from the slaughter of the Amalekites only two days before he heard of the death of Saul. He had r...
the Song of the Bow 2 Samuel 1:17-27 This noble poem is unrivaled. It is a perfect model of a funeral dirge. It is in poetry what Händel's Dead March in Saul is in music. The psalmist is born...
The second Book of Samuel deals largely with the story of David, and presents the picture of the theocratic monarchy. The first movement records the progress of David to the position which God had ap...
(19) The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! (20) Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,...
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places ,.... The high mountains of Gilboa, where Saul their king, and Jonathan his son, a prince of the blood, and natural heir to the crown, and multitud...
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Ver. 19. The beauty of Israel. ] Here beginneth this sad sonnet, whereof this verse is the foot, and is therefore rep...
The beauty of Israel Hebrew, הצבי, hatsebi; the honour, glory, flower , or ornament , meaning Saul and Jonathan, and their army. Delaney understands the expression only of Jonathan, and observes,...
Verse 1 shows us that David's slaughter of the Amalekites took place at about the same time as the Philistine defeat of Israel. David had been two days at Ziklag when a man came from the scene of thi...
David's Lamentation for Jonathan. B. C. 1055. 17 And David lamented with this lamentatio...
The beauty of Israel; their flower and glory, Saul and Jonathan, and their army, consisting of young and valiant men. Upon thy high places, i.e. those which belong to thee, O land of Israel. How...
The Thorough Defeat Of Israel And The Death Of Saul ( 1 Samuel 31:1 - 2 Samuel 1:27 ). Having initially demonstrated how God's purposes are moving forward in David, the writer now describes the h...
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES.— 2 Samuel 1:17 . “Lamented—Lamentation.” These words must be understood in a technical sense.… This lamentation has a peculiar interest as being the only specimen...
2 Samuel 1:19-27 I. One of the first lessons impressed upon us by this lament relates to David's noble-minded forgetfulness of all personal injury. II. The lament shows how David was able to take...
2 Samuel 1:6 . Mount Gilboa, two miles from mount Tabor. The battle was fought near the place where Barak fought with Sisera. 2 Samuel 1:10 . The crown and the bracelet. A true mercenary soldi...
The beauty of Israel is slain. The fall of Christians We have here an illustration of the degenerating influences of sin upon the character of Christians, and the lamentable effects in the eyes...
EXPOSITION 2 Samuel 1:1 Now it came to pass. During the last few days events had been crowding fast upon one another. Living as fugitives at Ziklag, in the land of the Philistines, David...
David's Lament
1 Samuel 31:8 ; 2 Samuel 1:23 ; 2 Samuel 1:25 ; 2 Samuel 1:27 ; Deuteronomy 4:7 ; Deuteronomy 4:8 ; Isaiah 4:2 ; Isaiah 53:2 ; Lamentations 2:1 ; Lamentations 5:16 ; Zechariah 11:10 ; Zec...
Beauty — Their flower and glory. Saul and Jonathan, and their army. High places — Heb. upon thy high places; that is, those which belong to thee, O land of Israel. How — How strangely! How suddenly...