How are the mighty fallen in the middle of the battle! O Jonathan, you were slain in your high places.
How are the mighty fallen in the middle of the battle! O Jonathan, you were slain in your high places.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.
How have the great ones been made low in the fight! Jonathan is dead on your high places.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan thou wast slain in thy high places.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.
How are the mighty fallen - The recurrenee of the same idea 2 Samuel 1:19, 2 Samuel 1:25, 2 Samuel 1:27 is perfectly congenial to the nature of elegy, since grief is fond of dwelling upon the particular objects of the passion, and frequently repeating them. By unanimous consent this is considered one of the most beautiful odes in the Bible, and the generosity of David in thus mourning for his enemy and persecutor, Saul, enhances the effect upon the mind of the reader.
1:25 Thine - Which were in thy country, and (had not thy father disinherited thee by his sins) in thy dominions.