Scripture · Old Testament
2 Samuel 1:21
2 Samuel 1:21 is verse 21 of 2 Samuel chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
Or no showers falling on your terraced fields; LXX no fields of firstfruits; Hebrew no fields of offerings
King James Version
Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
World English Bible
You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, and no fields of offerings; for there the shield of the mighty was defiled and cast away, the shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.
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2 Samuel 1:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible
19 “Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
20 Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
21 O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not retreat, and the sword of Saul did not return empty.
23 Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Samuel 31:1Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
1 Chronicles 10:1Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
1 Chronicles 10:8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
Judges 5:23‘Curse Meroz,’ says the angel of the LORD. ‘Bitterly curse her inhabitants; for they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’
Job 3:3“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
Job 3:4If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.
Job 3:5May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
Job 3:6If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.
Job 3:7Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.
Job 3:8May it be cursed by those who curse the day — those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
Job 3:9May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
Job 3:10For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
Isaiah 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
Jeremiah 20:15Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.
Jeremiah 20:16May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
Joel 1:9Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.
Joel 2:14Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him— grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
1 Samuel 10:1Then Samuel took a flask of oil, poured it on Saul’s head, kissed him, and said, “Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over His inheritance?
Isaiah 21:5They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!