(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
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Barnes' Notes
The use of the bow - Omit “the use of.” “The bow” is the name by which this dirge was known, being so called from the mention of Jonathan’s bow in 2Sa 1:22. The sense would then be: And he commanded…
Adam Clarke
The use of the bow - The use of is not in the Hebrew; it is simply the bow, that is, a song thus entitled. See the observations at the end, 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…
Cambridge Bible
also he bade, &c. And he gave commandment to teach the children of Judah the Bow. The E. V. cannot be right in inserting "the use of," for the bow was a weapon already in common use. If the text is…