2 Samuel 1:17
New International Version
David took up this lament concerning Saul and his son Jonathan,

New Living Translation
Then David composed a funeral song for Saul and Jonathan,

English Standard Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son,

Berean Standard Bible
Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

King James Bible
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

New King James Version
Then David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

New American Standard Bible
Then David sang this song of mourning over Saul and his son Jonathan,

NASB 1995
Then David chanted with this lament over Saul and Jonathan his son,

NASB 1977
Then David chanted with this lament over Saul and Jonathan his son,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then David chanted with this funeral lament over Saul and Jonathan his son,

Amplified Bible
Then David sang this dirge (funeral song) over Saul and his son Jonathan,

Christian Standard Bible
David sang the following lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
David sang the following lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

American Standard Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And David lamented this lamentation for Shaul and for Jonathan his son

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son.

Contemporary English Version
David sang a song in memory of Saul and Jonathan,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David made this kind of lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son.

English Revised Version
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
David wrote this song of mourning for Saul and his son Jonathan.

Good News Translation
David sang this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

International Standard Version
So David intoned this song of lament about Saul and his son Jonathan,

JPS Tanakh 1917
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

Literal Standard Version
And David laments with this lamentation over Saul, and over his son Jonathan;

Majority Standard Bible
Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

New American Bible
Then David chanted this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan

NET Bible
Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan.

New Revised Standard Version
David intoned this lamentation over Saul and his son Jonathan.

New Heart English Bible
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

Webster's Bible Translation
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son:

World English Bible
David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

Young's Literal Translation
And David lamenteth with this lamentation over Saul, and over Jonathan his son;

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Context
David's Song for Saul and Jonathan
17Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan, 18and he ordered that the sons of Judah be taught the Song of the Bow. It is written in the Book of Jashar:…

Cross References
2 Samuel 3:33
And the king sang this lament for Abner: "Should Abner die the death of a fool?

2 Chronicles 35:25
Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Book of Laments.

Ezekiel 32:16
This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitudes they will chant it, declares the Lord GOD."


Treasury of Scripture

And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

lamented

2 Samuel 1:19
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

Genesis 50:11
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

2 Chronicles 35:25
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

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17. David laments Saul and Jonathan with a song














(17) Lamented with this lamentation.--This is the technical expression for a funeral dirge or elegy, such as David also composed on the death of Abner (2Samuel 3:33-34), and Jeremiah on the death of Josiah (2Chronicles 35:25). It is the only instance preserved to us (except the few lines on the death of Abner) of David's secular poetry. "It is one of the finest odes of the Old Testament, full of lofty sentiment, and springing from deep and sanctified emotion, in which, without the slightest allusion to his own relation to the fallen king, David celebrates without envy the bravery and virtues of Saul and his son Jonathan, and bitterly laments their loss." (Keil.)

Verse 17. - David lamented with this lamentation. The Hebrew word for "lamentation" is kinah, a technical term for an elegy or poem commemorative of the dead. Thus Jeremiah wrote a kinah in memory of King Josiah (2 Chronicles 35:25); and there is little doubt that the "lamentations" there spoken of were a collection of dirges, in which probably this ode written by David held an honoured place. In 2 Samuel 3:33, 34 we have a short kinah in Abner's honour, which possibly formed part of a longer poem, of which those two verses only are quoted as sufficing to prove, not only David's innocence, but also his indignation at Joab's foul deed. In both these places we have remains of David's secular poetry, and find it marked by the same strong emotion and the same sublimity of thought as distinguish his psalms. We observe also the nobleness of David's nature in his total silence concerning himself, and his generous eulogy, not of Jonathan only, but also of Saul. The mean envy and the implacable jealousy of the latter are no more remembered, and he sees in him, not the personal foe, but the brave king who has fallen in his country's cause.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then David
דָּוִ֔ד (dā·wiḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

took up
וַיְקֹנֵ֣ן (way·qō·nên)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6969: To strike a, musical note, chant, wail

this
הַזֹּ֑את (haz·zōṯ)
Article | Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

lament
הַקִּינָ֖ה (haq·qî·nāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7015: An elegy, dirge

for
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

Saul
שָׁא֖וּל (šā·’ūl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7586: Saul -- first king of Israel, also an Edomite and two Israelites

and his son
בְּנֽוֹ׃ (bə·nōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

Jonathan,
יְהוֹנָתָ֥ן (yə·hō·w·nā·ṯān)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3083: Jonathan -- 'the LORD has given', the name of a number of Israelites


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