Topic
Elegy
5 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1896 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 2 Samuel 1:17Nave David's, on Saul and Jonathan
¶ And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
- 2 Samuel 1:19–27Nave David's, on Saul and Jonathan
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. Ye mountains of…
- 2 Samuel 3:33Nave On Abner
And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth?
- 2 Samuel 3:34Nave On Abner
Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.
- Lamentations 1:1–22Nave See the BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks:…
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Texts: Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.