How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
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Gill's Exposition
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!.... The mighty and valiant men of war, the common soldiers as well as their general officers, whose loss David mourns, and the repetition of shows…
Barnes' Notes
How are the mighty fallen - The recurrenee of the same idea 2Sa 1:19, 2Sa 1:25, 2Sa 1:27 is perfectly congenial to the nature of elegy, since grief is fond of dwelling upon the particular objects of…
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
O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places O Jonathan, slain upon thine high places! The insertion of thou wastweakens the force and pathos. Cp. 2Sa 1:1. The hero of a hundred fights, slain at…
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