And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
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Gill's Exposition
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son. Composed the following elegy on account of their death, and sung it in a tune agreeable to it, he and the men that were…
Barnes' Notes
The words lamented and lamentation must be understood in the technical sense of a funeral dirge or mournful elegy. (See similar dirges in 2Sa 3:33-34; and 2Ch 35:25.) This and the brief stanza on the…
Adam Clarke
David lamented - See this lamentation, and the notes on it at the end of this chapter, Sa2 1:21 (note).
When David had rent his clothes, mourned, and wept, and fasted, for the death of Saul, and done justice upon him who made himself guilty of it, one would think he had made full payment of the debt of…
David's lamentation for Saul and Jonathan
17. lamented with this lamentation The technical expression for a death-dirgeor mournful elegy, such as that pronounced by David over Abner (ch. 2Sa 3:33-34),…
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