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2 Samuel

SAMUEL 2. DAVID learns of Saul's death.  2Sm.1.1-16

¹WHEN DAVID RETURNED from his victory over the Amalekites, he spent two days in Ziklag. ²And on the third day after Saul's death a man came from the army with his clothes rent and dust on his head. When he came into David's presence he fell to the ground in obeisance, ³and David asked him where he had come from. He answered, 'I have escaped from the army of Israel.' ⁴And David said to him, 'What news? Tell me.' 'The army has been driven from the field,' he answered, 'and many have fallen in battle. Saul and Jonathan his son are dead.' ⁵David said to the young man who brought the news, 'How do you know that Saul and Jonathan are dead?' ⁶The man answered, 'It so happened that I was on Mount Gilboa and saw Saul leaning on his spear with the chariots and horsemen closing in upon him. ⁷He turned round and, seeing me, called to me. I said, "What is it, sir?" ⁸He asked who I was, and I said, "An Amalekite." ⁹Then he said to me, "Come and stand over me and dispatch me. I still live, but the throes of death have seized me." ¹⁰So I stood over him and gave him the death-blow; for I knew that, broken as he was, he could not live. Then I took the crown from his head and the armlet from his arm, and I have brought them here to you, sir.' ¹¹At that David caught at his clothes and rent them, and so did all the men with him. ¹²They beat their breasts and wept, because Saul and Jonathan his son and the people of the LORD, the house of Israel, had fallen in battle; and they fasted till evening. ¹³David said to the young man who brought the news, 'Where do you come from?', and he answered, 'I am the son of an alien, an Amalekite.' ¹⁴'How is it', said David, 'that you were not afraid to raise your hand to slay the LORD's anointed?' ¹⁵And he summoned one of his own young men and ordered him to fall upon the man. So the young man struck him down and killed him; ¹⁶and David said, 'Your blood be on your own head; for out of your own mouth you condemned yourself when you said, "I killed the LORD's anointed." '

David's lament for Saul & Jonathan.  2Sm.1.17-27

¹⁷David made this lament over Saul and Jonathan his son; ¹⁸and he ordered that this dirge over them should be taught to the people of Judah. It was written down and may be found in the Book of Jashar Or the Book of the Upright:

¹⁹O prince of Israel, laid low in death!
How are the men of war fallen!

²⁰Tell it not in Gath,
proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon,
lest the Philistine women rejoice,
lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

²¹Hills of Gilboa, let no dew or rain fall on you,
no showers on the uplands showers on the uplands: prob. rdg, Heb fields of offerings!
For there the shields of the warriors lie tarnished,
and the shield of Saul, no longer bright with oil.
²²The bow of Jonathan never held back
from the breast of the foeman, from the blood of the slain;
the sword of Saul never returned
empty to the scabbard.

²³Delightful and dearly loved were Saul and Jonathan;
in life, in death, they were not parted.
They were swifter than eagles,
stronger than lions.

²⁴Weep for Saul, O daughters of Israel!
who clothed you in scarlet and rich embroideries,
who spangled your dress with jewels of gold.

²⁵How are the men of war fallen, fallen on the field!
O Jonathan, laid low in death!
²⁶I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother;
dear and delightful you were to me;
your love for me was wonderful,
surpassing the love of women.



²⁷Fallen, fallen are the men of war;
and their armour left on the field.

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