2 Samuel 1:19

1:19 The beauty ¹  of Israel lies slain on your high places!

How the mighty have fallen!

2 Samuel 1:27

1:27 How the warriors have fallen!

The weapons of war ²  are destroyed!

2 Samuel 3:33

3:33 The king chanted the following lament for Abner:

“Should Abner have died like a fool?

2 Samuel 12:9

12:9 Why have you shown contempt for the word of the Lord by doing evil in my ³  sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and you have taken his wife as your own! ⁴  You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.

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¹ sn The word beauty is used figuratively here to refer to Saul and Jonathan.

² sn The expression weapons of war may here be a figurative way of referring to Saul and Jonathan.

³ tc So the Qere; the Kethib has “his.”

⁴ tn Heb “to you for a wife.” This expression also occurs at the end of v. 10.