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For the shields of the brave lie there in disgrace; the shield of Saul is no longer polished with oil. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/2_samuel/1-21.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="../vmenus/2_samuel/1-21.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="/bmcc/2_samuel/1-21.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="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_samuel/1.htm">2 Samuel</a> > <a href="/gntd/2_samuel/1.htm">Chapter 1</a> > Verse 21</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><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_samuel/1-20.htm" title="2 Samuel 1:20">◄</a> 2 Samuel 1:21 <a href="../2_samuel/1-22.htm" title="2 Samuel 1:22">►</a></div></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="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/2_samuel/1.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/2_samuel/1.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"May no rain or dew fall on Gilboa's hills; may its fields be always barren! For the shields of the brave lie there in disgrace; the shield of Saul is no longer polished with oil. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/2_samuel/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor bounteous fields! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, anointed with oil no more.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/2_samuel/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Don't let dew or rain fall on the hills of Gilboa. Don't let its fields grow offerings for God. There the warriors' shields were smeared with mud, and Saul's own shield was left unpolished. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/2_samuel/1.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />O mountains of Gilboa, upon you be neither dew nor rain, nor surging from the deeps! Defiled there the warriors’ shields, the shield of Saul—no longer anointed with oil! <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/2_samuel/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Ye mountains of Gelboe, let neither dew, nor rain come upon you, neither be they fields of firstfruits: for there was cast away the shield of the valiant, the shield of Saul as though he had not been anointed with oil.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Ye mountains of Gelboe, let neither dew, nor rain come upon you, neither be they fields of firstfruits: for there was cast away the shield of the valiant, the shield of Saul as though he had not been anointed with oil.</p><p class="hdg">mountains</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/31-1.htm">1 Samuel 31:1</a> And the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gelboe.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_chronicles/10-1.htm">1 Chronicles 10:1,8</a> Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down wounded in mount Gelboe. . . . </p><p class="hdg">no dew</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../judges/5-23.htm">Judges 5:23</a> Curse ye the land of Meroz, said the angel of the Lord: curse the inhabitants thereof, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to help his most valiant men.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/3-3.htm">Job 3:3-10</a> Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/5-6.htm">Isaiah 5:6</a> And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be digged: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/20-14.htm">Jeremiah 20:14-16</a> Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed. . . . </p><p class="hdg">offerings</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joel/1-9.htm">Joel 1:9</a> Sacrifice and libation is cut off from the house of the Lord: the priests, the Lord's ministers, have mourned:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joel/2-14.htm">Joel 2:14</a> Who knoweth but he will return, and forgive, and leave a blessing behind him, sacrifice and libation to the Lord your God?</p><p class="hdg">not.</p><p class="hdg2">1488: `the shield of Saul; the [weapons] of the anointed with oil.'</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_samuel/10-1.htm">1 Samuel 10:1</a> And Samuel took a little vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him, and said: Behold, the Lord hath anointed thee to be prince over his inheritance, and thou shalt deliver his people out of the hands of their enemies, that are round about them. And this shall be a sign unto thee, that God hath anointed thee to be prince.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/21-5.htm">Isaiah 21:5</a> Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/2_samuel/1.htm">David's Song for Saul and Jonathan</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">20</span>Tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon: lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. <span class="reftext">21</span><span class="highl">Ye mountains of Gelboe, let neither dew, nor rain come upon you, neither be they fields of firstfruits: for there was cast away the shield of the valiant, the shield of Saul as though he had not been anointed with oil.</span><span class="reftext">22</span>From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the valiant, the arrow of Jonathan never turned back, and the sword of Saul did not return empty.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_samuel/31-1.htm">1 Samuel 31:1</a></span><br />And the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gelboe.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../songs/4-4.htm">Songs 4:4</a></span><br />Thy neck, is as the tower of David, which is built with bulwarks: a thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the armour of valiant men.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/21-5.htm">Isaiah 21:5</a></span><br />Prepare the table, behold in the watchtower them that eat and drink: arise, ye princes, take up the shield.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/31-15.htm">Ezekiel 31:15</a></span><br />Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when he went down to hell, I brought in mourning, I covered him with the deep: and I withheld its rivers, and restrained the many waters: Libanus grieved for him, and all the trees of the field trembled.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_samuel/1-16.htm">Anointed</a> <a href="/1_samuel/23-7.htm">Cast</a> <a href="/1_samuel/9-2.htm">Choice</a> <a href="/1_samuel/26-12.htm">Deep</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/24-4.htm">Defiled</a> <a href="/judges/6-40.htm">Dew</a> <a href="/1_samuel/30-11.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/33-14.htm">Fruits</a> <a href="/2_samuel/1-6.htm">Gilboa</a> <a href="/2_samuel/1-6.htm">Gilbo'a</a> <a href="/1_samuel/25-18.htm">Grain</a> <a href="/1_samuel/27-4.htm">Longer</a> <a href="/2_samuel/1-19.htm">Mighty</a> <a 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grain have Let longer may mighty mountains neither no nor not O of offerings oil on or rain rubbed Saul shield that the there was with yield you<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/2_samuel/1-21.htm">OT History: 2 Samuel 1:21 You mountains of Gilboa let there be (2Sa iiSam 2 Sam ii sam) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_samuel/1-20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Samuel 1:20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Samuel 1:20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_samuel/1-22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Samuel 1:22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Samuel 1:22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" 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