2 Samuel 1:13-27 ▼

13 Meanwhile, David asked the young man who had told him the story, |Where are you from?| He answered, |I'm an Amalekite, the son of a foreign man.|

14 At this David asked him, |How is it that you weren't afraid to raise your hand to strike the LORD's anointed?|

15 Then David called out to one of his young men and ordered him, |Go up to him and cut him down!| So he attacked him and killed him.

16 David told him, |Your blood is on your own head, because your own words testified against you! After all, you said, 'I myself have killed the LORD's anointed!'|

17 So David intoned this song of lament about Saul and his son Jonathan,

18 and he gave orders to teach the descendants of Judah the art of warfare, as is recorded in the Book of Jashar:

19 |Your beauty, Israel, lies slain on your high places! O, how the valiant have fallen!

20 Don't make it known in Gath! Don't declare it in the avenues of Ashkelon! Otherwise, the daughters of Philistia will rejoice; and the daughters of the uncircumcised will triumph.

21 Mountains of Gilboa, let no dew or rain fall on you, and may none of your fields be filled with plenty, because in that place the shield of the valiant ones was defiled, the shield of Saul without an anointing with oil.

22 From the blood of the slain, from the blood of the valiant, Jonathan's bow would not retreat nor would Saul's sword return empty.

23 Saul and Jonathan, loved and handsome in life, in death were not separated. Swifter than eagles they were, and more valiant than lions.

24 Daughters of Israel, weep over Saul! He clothed you in scarlet luxury and decorated your garments with gold.

25 How have the valiant fallen in the tumult of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your high places.

26 I am in distress for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been most kind to me. Your love for me was extraordinary — beyond love from women.

27 How the valiant have fallen! How the weapons of war are destroyed!|