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King James Version (1611 Edition)
2 Samuel 1:25
How are the mightie fallen in the midst of the battell! O Ionathan, thou wast slaine in thine high places.
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Christian Standard Bible®
How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle!Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle!Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
Hebrew Names Version
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Yonatan is slain on your high places.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Yonatan is slain on your high places.
King James Version
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
Lexham English Bible
How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle; Jonathan lies slain on your high places.
How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle; Jonathan lies slain on your high places.
English Standard Version
"How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! "Jonathan lies slain on your high places.
"How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! "Jonathan lies slain on your high places.
New Century Version
"How the mighty have fallen in battle! Jonathan is dead on Gilboa's hills.
"How the mighty have fallen in battle! Jonathan is dead on Gilboa's hills.
New English Translation
How the warriors have fallen in the midst of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your high places!
How the warriors have fallen in the midst of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your high places!
Amplified Bible
"How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan lies slain upon your high places.
"How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan lies slain upon your high places.
New American Standard Bible
"How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slaughtered on your high places.
"How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slaughtered on your high places.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Howe were the mightie slaine in the mids of the battel! O Ionathan, thou wast slaine in thine hie places.
Howe were the mightie slaine in the mids of the battel! O Ionathan, thou wast slaine in thine hie places.
Legacy Standard Bible
How have the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!Jonathan is slain on your high places.
How have the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!Jonathan is slain on your high places.
Contemporary English Version
Our warriors have fallen in the heat of battle, and Jonathan lies dead on the hills of Gilboa.
Our warriors have fallen in the heat of battle, and Jonathan lies dead on the hills of Gilboa.
Complete Jewish Bible
"How the heroes have fallen in the heat of battle, Y'honatan killed on your high places!
"How the heroes have fallen in the heat of battle, Y'honatan killed on your high places!
Darby Translation
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Strong men have fallen in the battle. Jonathan is dead on Gilboa's hills.
"Strong men have fallen in the battle. Jonathan is dead on Gilboa's hills.
George Lamsa Translation
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, upon her high places are many slain.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, upon her high places are many slain.
Good News Translation
"The brave soldiers have fallen, they were killed in battle. Jonathan lies dead in the hills.
"The brave soldiers have fallen, they were killed in battle. Jonathan lies dead in the hills.
Literal Translation
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places!
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
How are the Worthies fallen so in the battayll? Ionathas is slayne vpon ye heigth of the.
How are the Worthies fallen so in the battayll? Ionathas is slayne vpon ye heigth of the.
American Standard Version
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.
Bible in Basic English
How have the great ones been made low in the fight! Jonathan is dead on your high places.
How have the great ones been made low in the fight! Jonathan is dead on your high places.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Howe were the mightie slayne in the middest of the battel? O Ionathan thou wast slayne in thyne hye places.
Howe were the mightie slayne in the middest of the battel? O Ionathan thou wast slayne in thyne hye places.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan upon thy high places is slain!
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan upon thy high places is slain!
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, even the slain ones upon thy high places!
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, even the slain ones upon thy high places!
English Revised Version
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.
Berean Standard Bible
How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Hou `felden doun stronge men in batel?
Hou `felden doun stronge men in batel?
Young's Literal Translation
How have the mighty fallen In the midst of the battle! Jonathan! on thy high places wounded!
How have the mighty fallen In the midst of the battle! Jonathan! on thy high places wounded!
Update Bible Version
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.
Webster's Bible Translation
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan [thou wast] slain in thy high places.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan [thou wast] slain in thy high places.
World English Bible
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.
New King James Version
"How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan was slain in your high places.
"How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan was slain in your high places.
New Living Translation
Oh, how the mighty heroes have fallen in battle! Jonathan lies dead on the hills.
Oh, how the mighty heroes have fallen in battle! Jonathan lies dead on the hills.
New Life Bible
How have the powerful fallen in the center of the battle! Jonathan has been killed on your high places.
How have the powerful fallen in the center of the battle! Jonathan has been killed on your high places.
New Revised Standard
How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan lies slain upon your high places.
How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan lies slain upon your high places.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How have fallen the mighty, in the midst of the battle! Jonathan, on thy high places, slain!
How have fallen the mighty, in the midst of the battle! Jonathan, on thy high places, slain!
Douay-Rheims Bible
How are the valiant fallen in battle? Jonathan slain in the high places?
How are the valiant fallen in battle? Jonathan slain in the high places?
Revised Standard Version
"How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! "Jonathan lies slain upon thy high places.
"How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! "Jonathan lies slain upon thy high places.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"How have the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.
"How have the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.
Contextual Overview
17 And Dauid lamented with this lamentation ouer Saul, and ouer Ionathan his sonne: 18 (Also hee bade them teach the children of Iudah the vse of the bow: behold, it is written in the booke of Iasher.) 19 The beauty of Israel is slaine vpon thy high places: how are the mightie fallen! 20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streetes of Askelon: lest the daughters of the Philistines reioyce, lest the daughters of the vncircumcised triumph. 21 Yee mountaines of Gilboa, let there bee no dewe, neither let there be raine vpon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mightie is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though hee had not beene annointed with oile. 22 From the blood of the slaine, from the fat of the mightie, the bow of Ionathan turned not backe, and the sword of Saul returned not emptie. 23 Saul and Ionathan were louely and pleasant in their liues, and in their death they were not diuided: they were swifter then Eagles, they were stronger then Lions. 24 Yee daughters of Israel, weepe ouer Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of golde vpon your apparell. 25 How are the mightie fallen in the midst of the battell! O Ionathan, thou wast slaine in thine high places. 26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Ionathan, very pleasant hast thou beene vnto mee: thy loue to mee was wonderfull, passing the loue of women.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
How: 2 Samuel 1:19, 2 Samuel 1:27, Lamentations 5:16, thou was, Judges 5:18, 1 Samuel 14:13-15
Reciprocal: Ezekiel 26:17 - How art
Cross-References
Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament, Heauen: and the euening and the morning were the second day.
And God called the firmament, Heauen: and the euening and the morning were the second day.
Genesis 1:10
And God called the drie land, Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called hee, Seas: and God saw that it was good.
And God called the drie land, Earth, and the gathering together of the waters called hee, Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:19
And the euening and the morning were the fourth day.
And the euening and the morning were the fourth day.
Genesis 1:20
And God said, Let the waters bring foorth aboundantly the mouing creature that hath life, and foule that may flie aboue the earth in the open firmament of heauen.
And God said, Let the waters bring foorth aboundantly the mouing creature that hath life, and foule that may flie aboue the earth in the open firmament of heauen.
Job 26:13
By his spirit he hath garnished the heauens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
By his spirit he hath garnished the heauens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
Jeremiah 27:5
I haue made the earth, the man and the beast that are vpon the ground, by my great power, and by my outstretched arme, and haue giuen it vnto whom it seemed meet vnto me.
I haue made the earth, the man and the beast that are vpon the ground, by my great power, and by my outstretched arme, and haue giuen it vnto whom it seemed meet vnto me.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!.... The mighty and valiant men of war, the common soldiers as well as their general officers, whose loss David mourns, and the repetition of shows how much it affected him:
O Jonathan, [thou wast] slain in thine high places; in the high places of the land of Israel, the mountains of Gilboa, which though high, and in his own country, could not protect him from his enemies, and from falling by their hands: he who had been so valiant and victorious a prince, and yet he fell, not in an enemy's country, but his own.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
How are the mighty fallen - The recurrenee of the same idea 2 Samuel 1:19, 2 Samuel 1:25, 2 Samuel 1:27 is perfectly congenial to the nature of elegy, since grief is fond of dwelling upon the particular objects of the passion, and frequently repeating them. By unanimous consent this is considered one of the most beautiful odes in the Bible, and the generosity of David in thus mourning for his enemy and persecutor, Saul, enhances the effect upon the mind of the reader.
