2 Samuel 1:5 Then David said to the young man who brought him the report, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Then David said to the young man who brought him the report, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"

English Standard Version
Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”

New American Standard Bible
So David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"

King James Bible
And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
David asked the young man who had brought him the report, "How do you know Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?""

International Standard Version
David asked the young man who related the story, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"

American Standard Version
And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David said to the young man that told him: How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son, are dead?

Darby Bible Translation
And David said to the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?

Young's Literal Translation
And David saith unto the youth who is declaring it to him, 'How hast thou known that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?'

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:1-10 The blow which opened David's way to the throne was given about the time he had been sorely distressed. Those who commit their concerns to the Lord, will quietly abide his will. It shows that he desired not Saul's death, and he was not impatient to come to the throne.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2-12. a man came out of the camp from Saul—As the narrative of Saul's death, given in the last chapter, is inspired, it must be considered the true account, and the Amalekite's story a fiction of his own, invented to ingratiate himself with David, the presumptive successor to the throne. David's question, "How went the matter?" evinces the deep interest he took in the war, an interest that sprang from feelings of high and generous patriotism, not from views of ambition. The Amalekite, however, judging him to be actuated by a selfish principle, fabricated a story improbable and inconsistent, which he thought would procure him a reward. Having probably witnessed the suicidal act of Saul, he thought of turning it to his own account, and suffered the penalty of his grievously mistaken calculation (compare 2Sa 1:9 with 1Sa 31:4, 5).