And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son. ] Composed the following elegy on account of their death, and sung it in a tune agreeable to it, he and the men that were with him.
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And David calling one of his servants, said: Go near and fall upon him. And he struck him so that he died.
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And David said to him: Thy blood be upon thy own head: for thy own mouth hath spoken against thee, saying: I have slain the Lord’s anointed.
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And David made this kind of lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son.
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(Also he commanded that they should teach the children of Juda the use of the bow, as it is written in the book of the just.) And he said: Consider, O Israel, for them that are dead, wounded on thy high places.
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The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen?