2 Samuel 1:19
What does 2 Samuel 1:19 mean?
A plain-English look at 2 Samuel 1:19 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!
KJV
King James Version · 1611The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949The glory, O Israel, is dead on your high places! How have the great ones been made low!
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`The Roebuck, O Israel, On thy high places <FI>is<Fi> wounded; How have the mighty fallen!
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 1:23
Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, And in their death they were not divided: They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions.
- Deuteronomy 4:7
For what great nation is there, that hath a god so nigh unto them, as Jehovah our God is whensoever we call upon him?
- Lamentations 2:1
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
- Zechariah 11:7
So I fed the flock of slaughter, verily the poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
- 1 Samuel 31:8
And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa.
- Isaiah 4:2
In that day shall the branch of Jehovah be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
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