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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>2 Samuel 1 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_samuel/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_samuel/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > 2 Samuel 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_samuel/31.htm" title="1 Samuel 31">◄</a> 2 Samuel 1 <a href="../2_samuel/2.htm" title="2 Samuel 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/2_samuel/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">David Mourns for Saul and Jonathan</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Shortly after Saul had died, David returned from defeating the Amalekites and remained in Ziklag for two days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The next<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:2 Lit. third">a</a></span> 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>David asked him, “Where did you come from?</p> <p class="reg">He answered him, “I just escaped from Israel’s encampment.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>David continued questioning him, “How did things go? Please tell me!”</p> <p class="reg">He replied, “The army has fled the battlefield, many of the army are wounded<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:4 Lit. fallen">b</a></span> or have died, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>David asked the young man who related the story,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:5 The Heb. lacks the story">c</a></span> “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The young man who had been relating the story<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:6 The Heb. lacks the story">d</a></span> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Saul<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:7 Lit. He">e</a></span> glanced behind him, saw me, and called out to me, so I replied, ‘Here I am!’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He asked me, ‘Who are you?’ So I answered him, ‘I’m an Amalekite!’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He begged me, ‘Please—come stand here next to me and kill me, because I’m still alive.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So 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.”<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:10 Lit. my lord; and so throughout the book">f</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>On hearing this,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:11 Lit. Then">g</a></span> David grabbed his clothes and tore them, as did all the men who were attending to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They mourned and wept, and then decided to fast<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:12 Lit. wept, fasting">h</a></span> 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.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:12 Lit. fallen by the sword">i</a></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Meanwhile, David asked the young man who had told him the story,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:13 The Heb. lacks story">j</a></span> “Where are you from?”</p> <p class="reg">He answered, “I’m an Amalekite, the son of a foreign man.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>At this David asked him, “How is it that you weren’t afraid to raise your hand to strike the LORD’s anointed?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then 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.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>David told him, “Your blood is on your own head, because your own words<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:16 Lit. mouth">k</a></span> testified against you! After all, you said, ‘I myself have killed the LORD’s anointed!’”</p> <p class="heading">David’s Song for Saul and Jonathan</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So David intoned this song of lament about Saul and his son Jonathan, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and he gave orders<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:18 Lit. he said">l</a></span> to teach the descendants of Judah the art of warfare,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:18 Lit. Judah the bow; or Judah the Song of the Bow; i.e., David’s lament in vs. 19-27">m</a></span> as is recorded in the Book of Jashar:<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:18 Lit. the Book of the Upright; i.e. an ancient chronicle of Israel, apparently now lost.">n</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Your beauty, Israel, lies slain on your high places!</p> <p class="poetry2">O, how the valiant have fallen!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Don’t make it known in Gath!</p> <p class="poetry2">Don’t declare it in the avenues of Ashkelon!</p> <p class="poetry2">Otherwise, the daughters of Philistia will rejoice;</p> <p class="poetry2">and the daughters of the uncircumcised will triumph.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Mountains of Gilboa,</p> <p class="poetry2">let no dew or rain fall on you,</p> <p class="poetry2">and may none of your fields be filled with plenty,</p> <p class="poetry2">because in that place the shield of the valiant ones was defiled,</p> <p class="poetry2">the shield of Saul without an anointing with oil.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>From the blood of the slain,</p> <p class="poetry2">from the blood of the valiant,</p> <p class="poetry2">Jonathan’s bow would not retreat</p> <p class="poetry2">nor would Saul’s sword return empty.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Saul and Jonathan, loved and handsome in life,</p> <p class="poetry2">in death were not separated.</p> <p class="poetry2">Swifter than eagles they were,</p> <p class="poetry2">and more valiant than lions.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Daughters of Israel, weep over Saul!</p> <p class="poetry2">He clothed you in scarlet luxury</p> <p class="poetry2">and decorated your garments with gold.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>How have the valiant fallen in the tumult of battle!</p> <p class="poetry2">Jonathan lies slain on your high places.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I am in distress for you, my brother Jonathan.</p> <p class="poetry2">You have been most kind<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:26 Or pleasant">o</a></span> to me.</p> <p class="poetry2">Your love for me was extraordinary<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="1:26 Or wonderful">p</a></span> —</p> <p class="poetry2">beyond love from women.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>How the valiant have fallen!</p> <p class="poetry2">How the weapons of war are destroyed!”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 1:2 Lit. <i>third</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 1:4 Lit. <i>fallen</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 1:5 The Heb. lacks <i>the story</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 1:6 The Heb. lacks <i>the story</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 1:7 Lit. <i>He</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 1:10 Lit. <i>my lord</i>; 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