King James Version
2 Samuel 1:19 in the King James Version says “The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!” — study this verse from 2 Samuel chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!”
2 Samuel 1:19 · KJV
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.) of Jasher: or, of the upright
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“fallen”
H5307to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
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