2 Samuel 1:17
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
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In The King James Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
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Genesis 50:11And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the thrashing-floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians; wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizrayim, which is beyond the Jordan.
2 Samuel 3:33And the king lamented over Abner, and said, O, that Abner had to die, as the worthless dieth!
Psalms 35:14As though he had been to me a friend or a brother did I walk about: as one that mourneth for a mother did I sorrowfully bend down my head.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 1:12-17
11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him: 12 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. 13 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. 14 And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord… Read the whole commentary →