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Revised Standard Version

2 Samuel 1:11

Then David took hold of his clothes, and rent them; and so 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.
New English Translation
David then grabbed his own clothes and tore them, as did all the men who were with him.
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.
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 Then David took hold of his clothes, and rent them; and so did all the men who were with him; 12 and they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the LORD and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword. 13 And David said to the young man who told him, "Where do you come from?" And he answered, "I am the son of a sojourner, an Amal'ekite." 14 David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy the LORD'S anointed?" 15 Then David called one of the young men and said, "Go, fall upon him." And he smote him so that he died. 16 And David said to him, "Your blood be upon your head; for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have slain the LORD'S anointed.'"

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
And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.
Genesis 1:13
And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,
Genesis 1:16
And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also.
Genesis 1:17
And God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth,
Genesis 1:20
And God said, "Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the firmament of the heavens."
Genesis 1:29
And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food.
Genesis 2:5
when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up--for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;
Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Genesis 2:16
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;

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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