2 Samuel 1:25

World English Bible (2000)

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 1:19 : 19 "Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
  • 2 Sam 1:27 : 27 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"
  • Lam 5:16 : 16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
  • Judg 5:18 : 18 Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the deaths; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.
  • 1 Sam 14:13-15 : 13 Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor bearer killed them after him. 14 That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land. 15 There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; and the earth quaked: so there was an exceeding great trembling.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Sam 1:26-27
    2 verses
    89%

    26 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

    27 How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"

  • 2 Sam 1:19
    84%

    19 "Your glory, Israel, is slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!

  • 2 Sam 1:15-17
    3 verses
    83%

    15 David called one of the young men, and said, "Go near, and fall on him." He struck him, so that he died.

    16 David said to him, "Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have slain Yahweh's anointed.'"

    17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

  • 2 Sam 1:11-12
    2 verses
    82%

    11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and likewise all the men who were with him.

    12 They mourned, and wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

  • 2 Sam 1:4-6
    3 verses
    82%

    4 David said to him, "How did it go? Please tell me." He answered, "The people have fled from the battle, and many of the people also have fallen and are dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also."

    5 David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?"

    6 The young man who told him said, "As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed hard after him.

  • 2 Sam 1:21-24
    4 verses
    81%

    21 You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew nor rain on you, neither fields of offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.

    22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, Jonathan's bow didn't turn back. Saul's sword didn't return empty.

    23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives. In their death, they were not divided. They were swifter than eagles. They were stronger than lions.

    24 You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet delicately, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.

  • 1 Sam 31:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

    2 The Philistines followed hard on Saul and on his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

    3 The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers.

  • 1 Sam 14:13
    79%

    13 Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor bearer killed them after him.

  • 1 Chr 10:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on Mount Gilboa.

    2 The Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, the sons of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 13:22
    76%

    22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.

  • 1 Sam 14:41-45
    5 verses
    75%

    41 Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, "Show the right." Jonathan and Saul were chosen; but the people escaped.

    42 Saul said, "Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son." Jonathan was selected.

    43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done!" Jonathan told him, and said, "I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die."

    44 Saul said, "God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan."

    45 The people said to Saul, "Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked with God this day!" So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't die.

  • 1 Sam 20:41
    75%

    41 As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of [a place] toward the South, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another, and wept one with another, and David wept the most.

  • 1 Sam 18:1
    74%

    1 It happened, when he had made an end of speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

  • 1 Sam 14:17
    74%

    17 Then Saul said to the people who were with him, "Count now, and see who is missing from us." When they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor bearer were not there.

  • 1 Chr 10:8
    74%

    8 It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Sam 14:39
    74%

    39 For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die." But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

  • 1 Sam 31:8
    74%

    8 It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

  • 1 Chr 10:5
    73%

    5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died.

  • 2 Sam 3:38
    73%

    38 The king said to his servants, "Don't you know that there a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?

  • 1 Sam 31:5
    73%

    5 When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.

  • 1 Sam 14:21
    73%

    21 Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before, and who went up with them into the camp, [from the country] all around, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

  • 2 Sam 21:12
    73%

    12 David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;

  • 1 Sam 20:30-32
    3 verses
    72%

    30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, "You son of a perverse rebellious woman, don't I know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?

    31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!"

    32 Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"

  • 1 Sam 19:1
    72%

    1 Saul spoke to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David.

  • 1 Sam 19:5-7
    3 verses
    72%

    5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"

    6 Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan: and Saul swore, "As Yahweh lives, he shall not be put to death."

    7 Jonathan called David, and Jonathan showed him all those things. Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as before.

  • 2 Sam 3:34
    71%

    34 Your hands were not bound, nor your feet put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell." All the people wept again over him.

  • 2 Sam 21:21
    71%

    21 When he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimei, David's brother, killed him.

  • 1 Sam 20:13
    71%

    13 Yahweh do so to Jonathan, and more also, should it please my father to do you evil, if I don't disclose it to you, and send you away, that you may go in peace: and Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.

  • 1 Sam 14:1
    71%

    1 Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who bore his armor, "Come, and let us go over to the Philistines' garrison, that is on the other side." But he didn't tell his father.

  • 1 Sam 20:11
    71%

    11 Jonathan said to David, "Come, and let us go out into the field." They both went out into the field.