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15 Then David called out to one of his young men and ordered him, “Go up to him and cut him down!” So he attacked him and killed him.

16 David told him, “Your blood is on your own head, because your own words[a] testified against you! After all, you said, ‘I myself have killed the Lord’s anointed!’”

David’s Song for Saul and Jonathan

17 So David intoned this song of lament about Saul and his son Jonathan,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:16 Lit. mouth

15 Then David called one of his men and said, “Go, strike him down!”(A) So he struck him down, and he died.(B) 16 For David had said to him, “Your blood be on your own head.(C) Your own mouth testified against you when you said, ‘I killed the Lord’s anointed.’”

David’s Lament for Saul and Jonathan

17 David took up this lament(D) concerning Saul and his son Jonathan,(E)

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