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2 Samuel 1:26

2 Samuel 1:26
I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan,.... So he was, not only by nation and religion, but by affinity, having married the sister of Jonathan; and still more so by affection and friendship, he…

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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