2 Samuel 1:19

King James Version:

(The Lord speaking is red text)

The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

Complete Jewish Bible:

"Your glory, Isra'el, lies dead on your high places! How the heroes have fallen!

Berean Standard Bible:

“Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!

American Standard Version:

Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!

KJV with Strong’s Numbers:

The beauty{H6643} of Israel{H3478} is slain{H2491} upon thy high places{H1116}: how are the mighty{H1368} fallen{H5307}!

Cross-References (KJV):

2 Samuel 1:27

  • How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

Deuteronomy 4:7

  • For what nation [is there so] great, who [hath] God [so] nigh unto them, as the LORD our God [is] in all [things that] we call upon him [for]?

Deuteronomy 4:8

  • And what nation [is there so] great, that hath statutes and judgments [so] righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

2 Samuel 1:25

  • How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, [thou wast] slain in thine high places.

Lamentations 5:16

  • The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

1 Samuel 31:8

  • ¶ And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.

Lamentations 2:1

  • ¶ How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

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Commentary for 2 Samuel 1:19

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Strong's Numbers and Definitions:

Note: H = Hebrew (OT), G = Greek (NT)

  1. Strong's Number: H6643
    There are 32 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: צְבִי
    Transliteration: tsᵉbîy
    Pronunciation: tseb-ee'
    Description: from צָבָה in the sense of prominence; splendor (as conspicuous); also a gazelle (as beautiful); beautiful(-ty), glorious (-ry), goodly, pleasant, roe(-buck).
  2. Strong's Number: H3478
    There are 2229 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: יִשְׂרָאֵל
    Transliteration: Yisrâʼêl
    Pronunciation: yis-raw-ale'
    Description: from שָׂרָה and אֵל; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity; Israel.
  3. Strong's Number: H2491
    There are 85 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: חָלָל
    Transliteration: châlâl
    Pronunciation: khaw-lawl'
    Description: from חָלַל; pierced (especially to death); figuratively, polluted; kill, profane, slain (man), [idiom] slew, (deadly) wounded.
  4. Strong's Number: H1116
    There are 92 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: בָּמָה
    Transliteration: bâmâh
    Pronunciation: bam-maw'
    Description: from an unused root (meaning to be high); an elevation; height, high place, wave.
  5. Strong's Number: H1368
    There are 152 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: גִּבּוֹר
    Transliteration: gibbôwr
    Pronunciation: ghib-bore'
    Description: or גִּבֹּר; (shortened) intensive from the same as גֶּבֶר; powerful; by implication, warrior, tyrant; champion, chief, [idiom] excel, giant, man, mighty (man, one), strong (man), valiant man.
  6. Strong's Number: H5307
    There are 403 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: נָפַל
    Transliteration: nâphal
    Pronunciation: naw-fal'
    Description: a primitive root; to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative); be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for פָּלַל), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be ([idiom] hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, [idiom] surely, throw down.