The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen?

The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen?

beauty

2 Samuel 1:23 Saul and Jonathan, lovely, and comely in their life, even in death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions.

Deuteronomy 4:7,8 Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions. . . .

1 Samuel 31:8 And on the morrow the Philistines came to strip the slain, and they found Saul and his three sons lying in mount Gelboe.

Isaiah 4:2 In that day the bud of the Lord shall be in magnificence and glory, and the fruit of the earth shall be high, and a great joy to them that shall have escaped of Israel.

Isaiah 53:2 And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him:

Lamentations 2:1 Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Zechariah 11:7,10 And I will feed the flock of slaughter for this, O ye poor of the flock. And I took unto me two rods, one I called Beauty, and the other I called a Cord, and I fed the flock. . . .

how are

2 Samuel 1:25,27 How are the valiant fallen in battle? Jonathan slain in the high places? . . .

Lamentations 5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned.