Shmuel Bais 1:25

25 How are the Gibborim fallen in the midst of the milchamah! O Yonatan, thou wast slain on thine heights.

Shmuel Bais 1:25 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 1:25

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!
&c.] 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 how much it affected him:

O Jonathan, [thou wast] slain in thine high places;
in the high places of the land of Israel, the mountains of Gilboa, which though high, and in his own country, could not protect him from his enemies, and from falling by their hands: he who had been so valiant and victorious a prince, and yet he fell, not in an enemy's country, but his own.

Shmuel Bais 1:25 In-Context

23 Sha’ul and Yonatan were beloved and gracious in their lives, and in their mot they were not parted; they were swifter than nesharim, they were stronger than arayot.

24 Ye banot Yisroel, weep over Sha’ul, who clothed you in scarlet, with fineries, who put on ornaments of zahav upon your apparel.

25 How are the Gibborim fallen in the midst of the milchamah! O Yonatan, thou wast slain on thine heights.

26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Yonatan; very pleasant hast thou been unto me; thy ahavah was wonderful to me, passing ahavat nashim.

27 How are the Gibborim fallen, and the k’lei milchamah (weapons of war) perished!