2 Samuel 1:19

19 incliti Israhel super montes tuos interfecti sunt quomodo ceciderunt fortes

2 Samuel 1:19 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 1:19

The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places
The high mountains of Gilboa, where Saul their king, and Jonathan his son, a prince of the blood, and natural heir to the crown, and multitudes of young men, the flower of the nation, were wounded and slain. Here begins the lamentation, or the elegiac song:

how are the mighty fallen!
mighty men of war, strong and valiant, as Saul and his sons were, and the soldiers in his army.

2 Samuel 1:19 In-Context

17 planxit autem David planctum huiuscemodi super Saul et super Ionathan filium eius

18 et praecepit ut docerent filios Iuda arcum sicut scriptum est in libro Iustorum

19 incliti Israhel super montes tuos interfecti sunt quomodo ceciderunt fortes

20 nolite adnuntiare in Geth neque adnuntietis in conpetis Ascalonis ne forte laetentur filiae Philisthim ne exultent filiae incircumcisorum

21 montes Gelboe nec ros nec pluviae veniant super vos neque sint agri primitiarum quia ibi abiectus est clypeus fortium clypeus Saul quasi non esset unctus oleo