2 Samuel 1:17

David mourns Saul and Jonathan

17 Then David sang this funeral song^[a] for Saul and his son Jonathan.

2 Samuel 1:17 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 1:17

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.

2 Samuel 1:17 In-Context

15 Then David called for one of the young servants. "Come here!" he said. "Strike him down!" So the servant struck the Amalekite down, and he died.

16 "Your blood is on your own head," David said to the Amalekite, "because your own mouth testified against you when you admitted, ‘I killed the LORD's anointed.'"

17 Then David sang this funeral song for Saul and his son Jonathan.

18 David ordered everyone in Judah to learn the Song of the Bow. (In fact, it is written in the scroll from Jashar.)

19 Oh, no, Israel! Your prince lies dead on your heights. Look how the mighty warriors have fallen!

Footnotes

• [a] Or lament