Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
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Gill's Exposition
Ye mountains of Gilboa,.... On which fell Saul and his sons, and many of the people of Israel, Sa2 1:6,
let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you; which is not to understood as a real…
Barnes' Notes
Let there be no dew ... - For a similar passionate form of poetical malediction, compare Job 3:3-10; Jer 20:14-18. Nor fields of offerings - He imprecates such complete barrenness on the soil of…
Adam Clarke
As though he had not been - In stead of בלי beli, Not, I read כלי keley, Instruments.
Anointed with oil - See the observations at the end.
Sa2 1:18, etc.: He bade them teach the children of Judah the…
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
let there be no dew, &c. The language is poetical. Nature is as it were summoned to share in the mourning. The scene of such a terrible disaster should be unvisited by fertilizing dew and rain, and…
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