2 Samuel 1:19

Easy-to-Read Version

"Israel, your beauty was ruined on your hills. Oh, how those heroes fell!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The splendor of Israel lies slain on your heights.How the mighty have fallen!

Hebrew Names Version
Your glory, Yisra'el, is slain on your high places! How are the mighty fallen!

King James Version
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

Lexham English Bible
"The glory of Israel is on your high places; how the mighty have fallen!

English Standard Version
"Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

New Century Version
"Israel, your leaders have been killed on the hills. How the mighty have fallen in battle!

New English Translation
The beauty of Israel lies slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

Amplified Bible
"Your glory and splendor, O Israel, is slain upon your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

New American Standard Bible
"Your beauty, Israel, is slaughtered on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

Geneva Bible (1587)
O noble Israel, hee is slane vpon thy hie places: how are the mightie ouerthrowen!

Legacy Standard Bible
"Your beauty, O Israel, is slain on your high places!How have the mighty fallen!

Contemporary English Version
Israel, your famous hero lies dead on the hills, and your mighty warriors have fallen!

Complete Jewish Bible
"Your glory, Isra'el, lies dead on your high places! How the heroes have fallen!

Darby Translation
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

George Lamsa Translation
Israel was swift like a gazelle, and is slain upon her proud hills! How are the mighty fallen!

Good News Translation
"On the hills of Israel our leaders are dead! The bravest of our soldiers have fallen!

Literal Translation
The beauty of Israel is slain on your high places. How are the mighty fallen!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The Eldest in Israel are slayne vpon the heigth of the. How are the Worthies falle?

American Standard Version
Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!

Bible in Basic English
The glory, O Israel, is dead on your high places! How have the great ones been made low!

Bishop's Bible (1568)
O noble Israel, he is slaine vpon thy hie places: howe are the mightie ouerthrowen?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thy beauty, O Israel, upon thy high places is slain! How are the mighty fallen!

King James Version (1611)
The beauty of Israel is slaine vpon thy high places: how are the mightie fallen!

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Set up a pillar, O Israel, for the slain that died upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

English Revised Version
Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! how are the mighty fallen!

Berean Standard Bible
"Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
the noble men of Israel ben slayn on thin hillis.

Young's Literal Translation
`The Roebuck, O Israel, On thy high places [is] wounded; How have the mighty fallen!

Update Bible Version
Your glory, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How are the mighty fallen!

Webster's Bible Translation
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

World English Bible
Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! How are the mighty fallen!

New King James Version
"The beauty of Israel is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

New Living Translation
Your pride and joy, O Israel, lies dead on the hills! Oh, how the mighty heroes have fallen!

New Life Bible
"O Israel, your beauty is destroyed on your high places! How have the powerful fallen!

New Revised Standard
Your glory, O Israel, lies slain upon your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The beauty of Israel! on thy high plumes - slain! How have fallen - the mighty!

Douay-Rheims Bible
The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen?

Revised Standard Version
"Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!

THE MESSAGE
Oh, oh, Gazelles of Israel, struck down on your hills, the mighty warriors—fallen, fallen! Don't announce it in the city of Gath, don't post the news in the streets of Ashkelon. Don't give those coarse Philistine girls one more excuse for a drunken party! No more dew or rain for you, hills of Gilboa, and not a drop from springs and wells, For there the warriors' shields were dragged through the mud, Saul's shield left there to rot.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Your beauty, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How have the mighty fallen!

Contextual Overview

¹⁷ David sang a sad song about Saul and his son Jonathan. ¹⁸ David told his men to teach the song to the people of Judah. This song is called "The Bow," and it is written in the Book of Jashar. ¹⁹ "Israel, your beauty was ruined on your hills. Oh, how those heroes fell! ²⁰ Don't tell the news in Gath. Don't announce it in the streets of Ashkelon. Those Philistine cities would be happy! Those foreigners would be glad. ²¹ "May no rain or dew fall on you, mountains of Gilboa. May there be no offerings coming from your fields. The shields of the heroes rusted there. Saul's shield was not rubbed with oil. ²² Jonathan's bow killed its share of enemies, and Saul's sword killed its share! They have spilled the blood of men now dead. They cut into the fat of strong men. ²³ "Saul and Jonathan—how dear they were to us! In life they loved being together, and even death did not separate them! They were faster than eagles and stronger than lions. ²⁴ Daughters of Israel, cry for Saul! Saul gave you beautiful red dresses and covered them with gold jewelry! ²⁵ "Strong men have fallen in the battle. Jonathan is dead on Gilboa's hills. ²⁶ Jonathan, my brother, I miss you! I enjoyed your friendship so much. Your love for me was wonderful, stronger than the love of women.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

beauty: 2 Samuel 1:23, Deuteronomy 4:7, Deuteronomy 4:8, 1 Samuel 31:8, Isaiah 4:2, Isaiah 53:2, Lamentations 2:1, Zechariah 11:7, Zechariah 11:10

how are: 2 Samuel 1:25, 2 Samuel 1:27, Lamentations 5:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 9:22 - told 2 Samuel 1:17 - lamented Ezekiel 26:17 - How art Obadiah 1:5 - how

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places,.... The high mountains of Gilboa, where Saul their king, and Jonathan his son, a prince of the blood, and natural heir to the crown, and multitudes of young men, the flower of the nation, were wounded and slain. Here begins the lamentation, or the elegiac song:

how are the mighty fallen! mighty men of war, strong and valiant, as Saul and his sons were, and the soldiers in his army.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The beauty ... - i. e. Saul and Jonathan who were the chief ornament and pride of Israel, and slain upon “high places” 2 Samuel 1:25, namely, on Mount Gilboa.