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2 Samuel 1:17

2 Samuel 1:17
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

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…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

David lamented - See this lamentation, and the notes on it at the end of this chapter, Sa2 1:21 (note).

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

2 Samuel 1:17-27

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

2 Samuel 1:17-27

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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