19The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
Samuel II KJV: 1; 3; 4; 5; 6
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17And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son: 18(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)
19The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
20Tell it not in Gath,
publish it not in the streets of Askelon;
lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,
lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
21Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you,
nor fields of offerings:
for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away,
the shield of Saul,
as though he had not been anointed with oil.
22From the blood of the slain,
from the fat of the mighty,
the bow of Jonathan turned not back,
and the sword of Saul returned not empty.
23Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives,
and in their death they were not divided:
they were swifter than eagles,
they were stronger than lions.
24Ye daughters of Israel,
weep over Saul,
who clothed you in scarlet,
with other delights,
who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
25How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!
O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
26I am distressed for thee,
my brother Jonathan:
very pleasant hast thou been unto me:
thy love to me was wonderful,
passing the love of women.
27How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
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28And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
29Let it rest on the head of Joab,
and on all his father's house;
and let there not fail from the house of Joab
one that hath an issue,
or that is a leper,
or that leaneth on a staff,
or that falleth on the sword,
or that lacketh bread.
30So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.
31And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him,
Rend your clothes,
and gird you with sackcloth,
and mourn before Abner.
And king David himself followed the bier.
32And they buried Abner in Hebron:
and the king lifted up his voice,
and wept at the grave of Abner;
and all the people wept.
33And the king lamented over Abner, and said,
Died Abner as a fool dieth?
34Thy hands were not bound,
nor thy feet put into fetters:
as a man falleth before wicked men,
so fellest thou.
And all the people wept again over him.
35And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
36And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.
37For all the people and all Israel understood that day that it was not of the king to slay Abner the son of Ner.
38And the king said unto his servants,
Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
39And I am this day weak, though anointed king;
and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me:
the LORD shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.
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5And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.
6And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
7For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
8And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.
9And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them,
As the LORD liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
10When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead,
thinking to have brought good tidings,
I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag,
who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:
11How much more,
when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed?
shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand,
and take you away from the earth?
12And David commanded his young men, and they slew them,
and cut off their hands and their feet,
and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron.
But they took the head of Ishbosheth,
and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
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1Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying,
Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
2Also in time past,
when Saul was king over us,
thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel:
and the LORD said to thee,
Thou shalt feed my people Israel,
and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
3So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron;
and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD:
and they anointed David king over Israel.
4David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
5In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months:
and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.
6And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites,
the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying,
Except thou take away the blind and the lame,
thou shalt not come in hither:
thinking, David cannot come in hither.
7Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion:
the same is the city of David.
8And David said on that day,