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David: 16 You have only yourself to blame. Your own words convicted you when you said you had killed the Eternal’s anointed king.

17 Then David mourned the death of Saul and his son Jonathan with this song of grief, 18 the Song of the Bow, which he ordered taught to the people of Judah and recorded in the book of the Upright.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:18 Literally, the book of Jashar

16 For David had said to him, “Your blood be on your own head.(A) 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(B) concerning Saul and his son Jonathan,(C) 18 and he ordered that the people of Judah be taught this lament of the bow (it is written in the Book of Jashar):(D)

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