Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;
It came even to pass on the third day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp from Saul with his clothes rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David, that he fell to the earth, and did obeisance.
the third
Genesis 22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
Esther 4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and …
Esther 5:1 Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal …
Hosea 6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise …
Matthew 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly…
Matthew 16:21 From that time forth began Jesus to show to his disciples, how that …
a man
2 Samuel 4:10 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have …
clothes
Genesis 37:29,34 And Reuben returned to the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the …
Joshua 7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before …
1 Samuel 4:12,16 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh …
Joel 2:13 And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to the LORD …
and earth
2 Samuel 15:32 And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, …
1 Samuel 4:12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh …
he fell
2 Samuel 14:4 And when the woman of Tekoah spoke to the king, she fell on her face …
Genesis 37:7-10 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, see, my sheaf …
Genesis 43:28 And they answered, Your servant our father is in good health, he …
1 Samuel 20:41 And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward …
1 Samuel 25:23 And when Abigail saw David, she hurried, and lighted off the donkey, …
Psalm 66:3 Say to God, How terrible are you in your works! through the greatness …
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they …
And David said unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped.
And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.
And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold, Saul leaned upon his spear; and, lo, the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.
As I happened The story of this young man appears to be wholly a fiction, formed for the purpose of ingratiating himself with David, as the next probable successor to the crown. There is no {fact} in the case, except for the bringing of the diadem and bracelets of Saul, as a sufficient evidence of his death, which, as he appears to been a plunderer of the slain, he seems to have stripped from the dead body of the unfortunate monarch. It is remarkable, that Saul, who had forfeited his crown by his disobedience and ill-timed clemency with the Amalekites, should now have the insignia of royalty stripped from his person by one of those very people.
Ruth 2:3 And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: …
1 Samuel 6:9 And see, if it goes up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, …
Luke 10:31 And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when …
mount
2 Samuel 1:21 You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be …
1 Samuel 28:4 And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched …
1 Samuel 31:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel …
Saul
1 Samuel 31:2-7 And the Philistines followed hard on Saul and on his sons; and the …
And when he looked behind him, he saw me, and called unto me. And I answered, Here am I.
Here am I [heb] Behold me
2 Samuel 9:6 Now when Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, was …
Judges 9:54 Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said …
1 Samuel 22:12 And Saul said, Hear now, you son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.
Isaiah 6:8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and …
Isaiah 65:1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that …
And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
an Amalekite
Genesis 14:7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote …
Exodus 17:8-16 Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim…
Numbers 24:20 And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek …
Deuteronomy 25:17-19 Remember what Amalek did to you by the way, when you were come forth …
1 Samuel 15:3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, …
1 Samuel 27:8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the …
1 Samuel 30:1,13,17 And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on …
He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.
anguish, etc. or, my coat of mail, or, my embroidered coat hindereth me, that my, etc.
So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.
slew
Judges 1:7 And Adonibezek said, Three score and ten kings, having their thumbs …
Judges 9:54 Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said …
1 Samuel 22:18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall on the priests. And …
1 Samuel 31:4,5 Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me …
Matthew 7:2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what …
crown
2 Samuel 12:30 And he took their king's crown from off his head, the weight whereof …
Lamentations 5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
bracelet This was probably worn as an ensign of royalty, as is frequently the case in the East. When the Khalif Cayem Bemrillah granted the investiture of certain dominions to an Eastern prince, the ceremony was performed by sending him letters patent, a crown, chain, and bracelets. The bracelet, says Mr.Morier, are ornaments fastened above the elbows, composed of precious stones of great value, and are only worn by the king and his sons.
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
rent
2 Samuel 3:31 And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, …
2 Samuel 13:31 Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; …
Genesis 37:29,34 And Reuben returned to the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the …
Acts 14:14 Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their …
likewise
Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
Psalm 35:13,14 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I …
Proverbs 24:17 Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad …
Jeremiah 9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears…
Amos 6:6 That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: …
Matthew 5:44 But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do …
2 Corinthians 11:29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
1 Peter 3:8 Finally, be you all of one mind, having compassion one of another, …
And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.
And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?
And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him that he died.
Go near
2 Samuel 4:10-12 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have …
Judges 8:20 And he said to Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the youth …
1 Samuel 22:17,18 And the king said to the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and …
1 Kings 2:25,34,46 And king Solomon sent by the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; …
Job 5:12 He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot …
Proverbs 11:18 The wicked works a deceitful work: but to him that sows righteousness …
And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.
thy blood
Genesis 9:5,6 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of …
Leviticus 20:9,11-13,16,27 For every one that curses his father or his mother shall be surely …
Deuteronomy 19:10 That innocent blood be not shed in your land, which the LORD your …
Joshua 2:19 And it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house …
Judges 9:24 That the cruelty done to the three score and ten sons of Jerubbaal …
1 Samuel 26:9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth …
1 Kings 2:32,33,37 And the LORD shall return his blood on his own head, who fell on …
Ezekiel 18:13 Has given forth on usury, and has taken increase: shall he then live? …
Ezekiel 33:5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood …
Matthew 27:25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
Acts 20:26 Why I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
mouth
2 Samuel 1:10 So I stood on him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could …
Job 15:6 Your own mouth comdemns you, and not I: yes, your own lips testify against you.
Proverbs 6:2 You are snared with the words of your mouth, you are taken with the …
Luke 19:22 And he said to him, Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked …
Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law said, it said to them …
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
teach
Genesis 49:8 Judah, you are he whom your brothers shall praise: your hand shall …
Deuteronomy 4:10 Specially the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, …
bow
Kasheth, or the bow, was probably the title of the following threnody; so called, in the oriental style, because Saul's death was occasioned by that weapon, and because the bow of Jonathan, out of which `the arrow was shot beyond the lad,' (
1 Samuel 20:36 And he said to his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. …
the book
Joshua 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had …
Jasher. or, the upright. So LXX. (), Targum, {siphra deoritha,} `the book of the law;' the Arabic, `the book of Ashee: this is the book of Samuel.' This book was probably a collection of divine odes, written to commemorate remarkable events.
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
beauty
2 Samuel 1:23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in …
Deuteronomy 4:7,8 For what nation is there so great, who has God so near to them, as …
1 Samuel 31:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip …
Isaiah 4:2 In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious…
Isaiah 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root …
Lamentations 2:1 How has the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his …
Zechariah 11:7,10 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. …
how are
2 Samuel 1:25,27 How are the mighty fallen in the middle of the battle! O Jonathan, …
Lamentations 5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Tell
Deuteronomy 32:26,27 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance …
Judges 14:19 And the Spirit of the LORD came on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, …
Judges 16:23,24 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer …
1 Samuel 31:9 And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into …
Micah 1:10 Declare you it not at Gath, weep you not at all: in the house of …
Philistines
Exodus 15:20,21 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand…
Judges 11:34 And Jephthah came to Mizpeh to his house, and, behold, his daughter …
1 Samuel 18:6 And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the …
Ezekiel 16:27,57 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over you, and have …
uncircumcised
1 Samuel 17:26,36 And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall …
1 Samuel 31:4,9 Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me …
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.
mountains
1 Samuel 31:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel …
1 Chronicles 10:1,8 Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel …
no dew
Judges 5:23 Curse you Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse you bitterly the …
Job 3:3-10 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it …
Isaiah 5:6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dig; but there …
Jeremiah 20:14-16 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my …
offerings
Joel 1:9 The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house …
Joel 2:14 Who knows if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him…
not. Instead of {belee}, `not' we should probably, with Dr. Delaney and others, read {keley,} `weapons,' as it is found on one MS and in the first edition of the Hebrew Bible, printed as Soncini,
1 Samuel 10:1 Then Samuel took a vial of oil, and poured it on his head, and kissed …
Isaiah 21:5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you …
From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
pleasant. or, sweet
1 Samuel 18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, …
1 Samuel 20:2 And he said to him, God forbid; you shall not die: behold, my father …
they were
1 Samuel 31:1-5 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel …
swifter
2 Samuel 2:18 And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and …
Deuteronomy 28:49 The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end …
1 Chronicles 12:8 And of the Gadites there separated themselves to David into the hold …
Job 9:26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hastens to the prey.
Jeremiah 4:13 Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as …
Lamentations 4:19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued …
stronger
2 Samuel 23:20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, …
Judges 14:18 And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the …
Proverbs 30:30 A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turns not away for any;
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
