2nd Samuel Chapter 1 verse 19 Holy Bible
Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!
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The glory, O Israel, is dead on your high places! How have the great ones been made low!
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The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
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The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
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The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
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Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! How are the mighty fallen!
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`The Roebuck, O Israel, On thy high places `is' wounded; How have the mighty fallen!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - The beauty of Israel. The word zebi means both "beauty" and also "the gazelle." Ewald takes it in the second sense, and explains it of Jonathan. "everywhere the first in courage, in activity, and speed; slender also and of well-made figure, and whose personal beauty and swiftness of foot in attack or retreat gained for him among the troops the name of 'the gazelle.' The Syriac Version also translates 'gazelle,'" but Ephrem says that the whole Israelite nation is meant, the flower of whoso manhood lay slaughtered on Mount Gilboa. Which signification we take must really depend upon the meaning we attach to the words, "thy high place;" and these in the Authorized Version have nothing to refer to, and so become unmeaning. The Revised Version follows the Vulgate in taking Israel as a vocative, sad renders, "Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places." The sense would thus be that given by Ephrem, Israel's glory being its "mighty" men or heroes, its warriors slain upon Mount Gilboa with their king. But ver. 25 makes it plain that the "high places" are Jonathan's, and not those of the nation; and the more correct rendering is "O beauty [or, 'gazelle'] of Israel, slain upon thy high places! how are the heroes fallen!" Thus Jonathan is certainly meant, and the heroes are the young, prince and his father; and as the hunted antelope is said to return to its lair in the mountains, and there await its death, "gazelle" is probably the right rendering. In a dirge in honour of Saul and Jonathan we may be pretty sure that Jonathan would be referred to in its opening words, and the camp name of his friend would bring back to David's mind many a brave feat wrought together, and many a pleasant hour of companionship in past years.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) The beauty of Israel, in the sense of the glory or ornament of Israel, referring to Saul and Jonathan. The rendering of the Syriac and some commentators, "the gazelle," as a poetic name for Jonathan, is uncalled for, both because the words are spoken of Saul and Jonathan together, and because there is no evidence elsewhere that Jonathan was so called, nor is there any allusion to him under this figure in the song.Upon thy high places.--Comp. 2Samuel 1:21; 2Samuel 1:25. This line may be considered as the superscription of the whole song.
