2 Samuel 1:19-21

Common English Bible

¹⁹Oh, no, Israel! Your prince^[a] lies dead on your heights.^[b]
    Look how the mighty warriors have fallen!
²⁰Don’t talk about it in Gath;
        don’t bring news of it to Ashkelon’s streets,
    or else the Philistines’ daughters will rejoice;
    the daughters of the uncircumcised will celebrate.
²¹You hills of Gilboa!
    Let there be no dew or rain on you,
    and no fields yielding grain offerings.^[c]
Because it was there that the mighty warrior’s^[d] shield was defiled—
    the shield of Saul!—never again anointed with oil.

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Footnotes

2 Samuel 1:19 Or gazelle or splendor or splendid one
2 Samuel 1:19 Correction
2 Samuel 1:21 Heb uncertain, perhaps bountiful fields; alternatively, with LXX^L, fields of death, or with correction and no springs from the deep
2 Samuel 1:21 Or warriors’ (plural)