2 Samuel 1:16-18

Common English Bible

¹⁶ “Your blood is on your own head,” David said to the Amalekite, “because your own mouth testified against you when you admitted, ‘I killed the Lord’s anointed.’”

David mourns Saul and Jonathan

¹⁷ Then David sang this funeral song^[a] for Saul and his son Jonathan. ¹⁸ David ordered everyone in Judah to learn the Song of the Bow.^[b] (In fact, it is written in the scroll from Jashar.)