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David’s Song for Saul and Jonathan

2 Samuel 1:25

In 11 translations

BSB
How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
KJV
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
WEB
How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle! Jonathan was slain on your high places.
ASV
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.
LSV
How the mighty have fallen || In the midst of the battle! Jonathan [was] wounded on your high places!
YLT
How have the mighty fallen In the midst of the battle! Jonathan! on thy high places wounded!
DBY
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.
DRC
How are the valiant fallen in battle? Jonathan slain in the high places?
GNV
Howe were the mightie slaine in the mids of the battel! O Ionathan, thou wast slaine in thine hie places.
JPS
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan upon thy high places is slain!
LXXE
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, even the slain ones upon thy high places!

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
אֵ֚יךְ נָפְל֣וּ גִבֹּרִ֔ים בְּת֖וֹךְ הַמִּלְחָמָ֑ה יְה֣וֹנָתָ֔ן עַל־בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָ חָלָֽל׃
LXX-Br
Πῶς ἔπεσαν δυνατοὶ ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ πολέμου, Ἰωνάθαν ἐπὶ τὰ ὕψη σου τραυματίαι;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 2 Samuel 1:19“Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
  • 2 Samuel 1:27How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!”
  • Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
  • Judges 5:18Zebulun was a people who risked their lives; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the battlefield.
  • 1 Samuel 14:13–15So Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, with his armor-bearer behind him. And the Philistines fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer followed and finished them off. In that first assault, Jonathan and his…

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