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2 Samuel 1:11

David then grabbed his own clothes and tore them, as did all the men who were with him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - David;   Falsehood;   Mourning;   Rending;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jonathan;   Saul;   Temple;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gilboa;   Ziklag;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Samuel, the Books of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Burial;   Court Systems;   Gestures;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ancestor-Worship;   Gestures;   Israel;   Samuel, Books of;   Saul;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount gilboa;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Dwelling;   Jonathan;   Scripture;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Da'vid;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Burial;   Samuel, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ancestor Worship;   Hafá¹­arah;   Mourning;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and all the men with him did the same.
Hebrew Names Version
Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him:
King James Version
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
Lexham English Bible
David grabbed at his clothes and tore them, as did all of the men who were with him.
English Standard Version
Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him.
New Century Version
Then David tore his clothes to show his sorrow, and all the men with him did also.
Amplified Bible
Then David grasped his own clothes and tore them [in mourning]; so did all the men who were with him.
New American Standard Bible
Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so also did all the men who were with him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Dauid tooke hold on his clothes, & rent them, and likewise al the men that were with him.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so also did all the men who were with him.
Contemporary English Version
Right away, David and his soldiers tore their clothes in sorrow.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and likewise all the men who were with him.
Darby Translation
Then David took hold of his garments and rent them; and all the men that were with him [did] likewise.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then David tore his clothes to show he was very sad. All the men with him did the same thing.
George Lamsa Translation
Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him;
Good News Translation
David tore his clothes in sorrow, and all his men did the same.
Literal Translation
And David took hold on his garments and tore them; and also all the men with him did so.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then toke Dauid holde of his clothes, and rente them, and so dyd all the me that were with him,
American Standard Version
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
Bible in Basic English
Then David gave way to bitter grief, and so did all the men who were with him:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then Dauid toke holde on his clothes, and rent them, and so did all the men that were with him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him.
King James Version (1611)
Then Dauid tooke hold on his clothes, and rent them, and likewise all the men that were with him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And David laid hold of his garments, and rent them; and all the men who were with him rent their garments.
English Revised Version
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
Berean Standard Bible
Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and all the men who were with him did the same.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Dauid took and to-rente hise clothis, and the men that weren with hym;
Young's Literal Translation
And David taketh hold on his garments, and rendeth them, and also all the men who [are] with him,
Update Bible Version
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
Webster's Bible Translation
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that [were] with him:
World English Bible
Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him:
New King James Version
Therefore David took hold of his own clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him.
New Living Translation
David and his men tore their clothes in sorrow when they heard the news.
New Life Bible
Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him.
New Revised Standard
Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them; and all the men who were with him did the same.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then David took hold of his clothes, and rent them, - yea moreover, so did all the men who were with him.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then David took hold of his garments and rent them, and likewise all the men that were with him.
Revised Standard Version
Then David took hold of his clothes, and rent them; and so did all the men who were with him;
THE MESSAGE
In lament, David ripped his clothes to ribbons. All the men with him did the same. They wept and fasted the rest of the day, grieving the death of Saul and his son Jonathan, and also the army of God and the nation Israel, victims in a failed battle.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so also did all the men who were with him.

Contextual Overview

11 David then grabbed his own clothes and tore them, as did all the men who were with him. 12 They lamented and wept and fasted until evening because Saul, his son Jonathan, the Lord 's people, and the house of Israel had fallen by the sword. 13 David said to the young man who told this to him, "Where are you from?" He replied, "I am an Amalekite, the son of a resident foreigner." 14 David replied to him, "How is it that you were not afraid to reach out your hand to destroy the Lord 's anointed?" 15 Then David called one of the soldiers and said, "Come here and strike him down!" So he struck him down, and he died. 16 David said to him, "Your blood be on your own head! Your own mouth has testified against you, saying ‘I have put the Lord 's anointed to death.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

rent: 2 Samuel 3:31, 2 Samuel 13:31, Genesis 37:29, Genesis 37:34, Acts 14:14

likewise: Romans 12:15

Reciprocal: Genesis 44:13 - General Esther 4:1 - rent Psalms 35:14 - I behaved Psalms 59:10 - let Ecclesiastes 3:7 - time to rend Joel 2:13 - your garments

Cross-References

Genesis 1:9
God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear." It was so.
Genesis 1:13
There was evening, and there was morning, a third day.
Genesis 1:14
God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and days and years,
Genesis 1:16
God made two great lights—the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night. He made the stars also.
Genesis 1:17
God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth,
Genesis 1:20
God said, "Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky."
Genesis 1:29
Then God said, "I now give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the entire earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
Genesis 2:5
Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
Genesis 2:9
The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.)
Genesis 2:16
Then the Lord God commanded the man, "You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When David took hold on his clothes,.... Not on the young man's but his own:

and rent them; on bearing of the death of Saul and Jonathan, see

Genesis 37:34; from whence the Jews l gather, that a man is bound to rend his clothes for a prince, and for the father of the sanhedrim, since Saul, they say, was the prince, and Jonathan the father of that court:

and likewise all the men that [were] with him; rent their clothes also, in imitation of him; the same custom obtained among the Gentiles on mournful occasions m.

l T. Bab. Moed. Katon, fol. 26. 1. m "-----it scissa veste Latinus". Virgil. Aeneid. 12. prope finem.


 
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