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He said to him, "I have escaped out of the camp of Israel." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>David said to him, "How did it go? Please tell me." He answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The young man who told him said, "As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When he looked behind him, he saw me, and called to me. I answered, 'Here I am.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He said to me, 'Who are you?' I answered him, 'I am an Amalekite.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He said to me, 'Please stand beside me, and kill me; for anguish has taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So I stood beside him, and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them here to my lord."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>David said to the young man who told him, "Where are you from?" He answered, "I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite." <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>David said to him, "How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>David called one of the young men, and said, "Go near, and fall on him." He struck him, so that he died. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>David said to him, "Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have slain Yahweh's anointed.'"</p> <p class="hdg">David's Song for Saul and Jonathan</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>(and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah [the song of] the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>"Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Don't tell it in Gath. Don't publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew nor rain on you, neither fields of offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, Jonathan's bow didn't turn back. Saul's sword didn't return empty.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet delicately, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_samuel/1-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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