Shmuel Bais 1:27

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

Shmuel Bais 1:27 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 1:27

How are the mighty fallen
This is the burden of this elegiac song, being the third time it is mentioned:

and the weapons of war perished!
not only the valiant soldiers were killed, but their arms were lost; and particularly he may mean Saul and Jonathan, who as they were the shields of the people, so they were the true weapons and instruments of war, and with them all military glory perished; which must be understood as a poetical figure, exaggerating their military characters; otherwise David, and many mighty men with him, remained, and who revived and increased the military glory of Israel, as the following history shows.

Shmuel Bais 1:27 In-Context

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!