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15 Then he said to one of his young men, “Kill him!” So he ran him through with his sword and he died.

16 “You die self-condemned,” David said, “for you yourself confessed that you killed God’s appointed king.”

17-18 Then David composed a dirge for Saul and Jonathan and afterward commanded that it be sung throughout Israel. It is quoted here from the book Heroic Ballads.

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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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