Devine Scripture

2 Samuel 1:19

2 Samuel chapter 1 · verse 19 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.18(and he bade them teach the children of Judah the song of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):

v.19This passage

v.20Tell it not in Gath, Publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon; Lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

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.