2 Samuel 1:17

¶ And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

And David {H1732} lamented {H6969} with this lamentation {H7015} over Saul {H7586} and over Jonathan {H3083} his son {H1121}:

Then David pronounced this lament over Sha'ul and over Y'honatan his son,

Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

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Cross-References

  • 2 Chronicles 35:25 (5 votes)

    And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they [are] written in the lamentations.

  • 2 Samuel 1:19 (3 votes)

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

  • Jeremiah 9:17 (2 votes)

    Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning [women], that they may come:

  • Jeremiah 9:21 (2 votes)

    For death is come up into our windows, [and] is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.

  • Genesis 50:11 (2 votes)

    And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This [is] a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which [is] beyond Jordan.