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2 Samuel 1:19

The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

KJV

Inclyti Israël super montes tuos interfecti sunt : quomodo ceciderunt fortes ?

Vulgate

Στήλωσον, Ἰσραήλ, ὑπὲρ τῶν τεθνηκότων ἐπὶ τὰ ὕψη σου τραυματιῶν· πῶς ἔπεσαν δυνατοί.

LXX

Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!

ASV

הַ/צְּבִי֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עַל בָּמוֹתֶ֖י/ךָ חָלָ֑ל אֵ֖יךְ נָפְל֥וּ גִבּוֹרִֽים

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֚יךְ
'yk
particle · 82×
בָּמ֖וֹת
bmvt
noun · 104×
גִּבּ֥וֹר
gbvr
adjective · 157×
חַלְלֵי
chlly
adjective · 92×
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yshr'l
proper_noun · 2486×
יִּפֹּ֥ל
ypl
verb · 434×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
צְבִ֣י
tsby
noun · 32×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 31:8 — And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
  • 2Sam 1:17 — And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
  • 2Sam 1:23 — Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
  • 2Sam 1:25 — How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
  • 2Sam 1:25 — How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
  • 2Sam 1:27 — How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
  • 2Sam 1:27 — How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
  • Deut 4:7 — For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
  • Isa 4:2 — In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
  • Lam 2:1 — How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
  • Lam 5:16 — The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
  • Zech 11:7 — And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
  • Zech 11:10 — And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people.