2 Samuel 1:17

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2 Samuel 1:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 Then David summoned one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him!” So the young man struck him down, and he died.

16 For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’”

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

18 and he ordered that the sons of Judah be taught the Song of the Bow. It is written in the Book of Jashar:

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

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2 Samuel 1:19

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

Genesis 50:11

When the Canaanites of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn ceremony of mourning by the Egyptians.” Thus the place across the Jordan is called Abel-mizraim.

2 Chronicles 35:25

Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.

Jeremiah 9:17

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

Jeremiah 9:18

Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

Jeremiah 9:19

For the sound of wailing is heard from Zion: ‘How devastated we are! How great is our shame! For we have abandoned the land because our dwellings have been torn down.’”

Jeremiah 9:20

Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.

Jeremiah 9:21

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.