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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 1:21

Let there be no dew ... - For a similar passionate form of poetical malediction, compare Job 3:3-10; Jeremiah 20:14-18.Nor fields of offerings - He imprecates such complete barrenness on the soil of Gilboa, that not even enough may grow for an offering of first-fruits. The latter part of the verse is better rendered thus: For there the shield of the mighty was polluted, the shield of Saul was not anointed with oil, but with blood). Shields were usually anointed with oil in preparation for the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 1:21

2 Samuel 1:21. Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, &c. This is not an imprecation, but a passionate expression of the sorrow and horror which he felt at this public disgrace and loss, which were such as if he thought every person or thing which contributed to it ought to bear tokens of the divine displeasure, such as the earth does when it is deprived of the influence of dew and rain. Nor fields of offerings That is, fertile fields, which may produce fair and goodly fruits... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 1:22

2 Samuel 1:22. The bow of Jonathan returned not back Without effect. The arrows shot from his bow did not miss their mark, but pierced deep into the fat and flesh, the heart and bowels, and shed the blood of the mighty. The sword of Saul returned not empty Always did great execution (as we now speak) upon those with whom he fought. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 1:23

2 Samuel 1:23. Saul and Jonathan were lovely Hebrew, הנאהבים , hanneehabim, were loved, namely, by each other, and by the people. And pleasant in their lives Amiable and obliging in their carriage and conversation, both toward one another and toward others: for, as for Saul’s fierce behaviour toward Jonathan, it was only a sudden passion, by which his ordinary temper was not to be measured; and as for his carriage toward David, it proceeded from that jealousy, and those reasons of... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 1:1-27

1:1-4:12 CIVIL WAR AFTER SAUL’S DEATHMourning for Saul and Jonathan (1:1-27)David learnt of Saul’s death from one of Saul’s own men, an Amalekite who had become a citizen of Israel (1:1-4; see v. 13). The man clearly thought that by adding a few details to the story and by bringing Saul’s crown to David, he could win David’s favour (5-10; cf. 4:10).As long as Saul lived, David had regarded him as the Lord’s anointed king and had consistently refused to harm him (cf. 1 Samuel 24:6; 1 Samuel... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Samuel 1:21

The shield of Saul. Omit the italics that follow, and supply instead "the weapon of one anointed with oil", the Hebrew k e li (or keli?) "weapons" being read instead of b e ll in the first edition of the Hebrew Bible, 1488, and the Syriac and Arabic Versions and Chaldee paraphrase. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Samuel 1:23

swifter . . . stronger . Figure of speech Hyperbole. App-6 . read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 1:21

2 Samuel 1:21. Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, &c.— Dr. Delaney renders this verse thus: Mountains of Gilboa, nor dew nor rain upon you, nor fields of waved offerings; for there the shield of the brave was cast away; the shield of Saul, the weapons of the anointed with oil: and Houbigant thus: Mountains of Gilboa, let no dew descend upon you, nor rain upon you, O ye fertile fields: [such as afford in abundance first-fruits to be offered to God:] For there the shield of the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 1:22

2 Samuel 1:22. From the blood of the slain, &c.— The Hebrew is חללים מדם middam chalalim, which words, as מ mem is allowed by Noldius to signify without, may be thus rendered; without the blood of the warriors, without the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan returned not back. Upon this construction, we see, the warriors and the mighty are strongly connected; or rather, the fat of the mighty, is a beautiful gradation upon the blood of the warriors; just as in Pro 7:26 which should have... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 1:23

2 Samuel 1:23. Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives— David means in this verse to express the union of Saul and Jonathan by friendship in life, and by the same common fate in death; and he does not by any means appear to design a commendation of the loveliness or excellency of their lives in any other respect. Dr. Lowth, in his poetical paraphrase, has finely expressed the meaning; Nobile par, quos junxit amor, quos gloria junxit, Unaque nunc fato jungit acerba dies.... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 2 Samuel 1:21

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 1:21

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 1:22

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 2 Samuel 1:23

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 1:1-27

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Samuel 1:21

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 2 Samuel 1:23

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 1:21

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 1:22

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 2 Samuel 1:23

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