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2 Samuel 1:19-21
New International Version - UK
2 Samuel 1:19-21
New International Version - UK
19 ‘A gazelle[a] lies slain on your heights, Israel.
How the mighty have fallen!
20 ‘Tell it not in Gath,
proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon,
lest the daughters of the Philistines be glad,
lest the daughters of the uncircumcised rejoice.
21 ‘Mountains of Gilboa,
may you have neither dew nor rain,
may no showers fall on your terraced fields.[b]
For there the shield of the mighty was despised,
the shield of Saul – no longer rubbed with oil.
Footnotes
- 2 Samuel 1:19 Gazelle here symbolises a human dignitary.
- 2 Samuel 1:21 Or / nor fields that yield grain for offerings
New International Version - UK (NIVUK)
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