2 Samuel 1:5

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Prov 14:15 : 15 A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
  • Prov 25:2 : 2 It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of kings is to search out a matter.

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  • 2 Sam 1:3-4
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    91%

    3David said to him, "Where do you come from?" He said to him, "I have escaped out of the camp of Israel."

    4David 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."

  • 2 Sam 1:6
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    6The 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 1:12-17
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    80%

    12They 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.

    13David said to the young man who told him, "Where are you from?" He answered, "I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite."

    14David said to him, "How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?"

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

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

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

  • 1 Sam 17:55-58
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    55When Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the captain of the army, "Abner, whose son is this youth?" Abner said, "As your soul lives, O king, I can't tell."

    56The king said, "Inquire whose son the young man is!"

    57As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

    58Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, you young man?" David answered, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."

  • 1 Sam 20:32
    77%

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

  • 2 Sam 1:25
    76%

    25How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain on your high places.

  • 1 Sam 26:17
    76%

    17Saul knew David's voice, and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" David said, "It is my voice, my lord, O king."

  • 1 Sam 20:10
    76%

    10Then David said to Jonathan, "Who shall tell me if perchance your father answers you roughly?"

  • 2 Sam 4:10
    75%

    10when someone told me, 'Behold, Saul is dead,' thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.

  • 1 Sam 14:39
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    39For, 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 20:39
    74%

    39But the boy didn't know anything. Only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

  • 1 Sam 18:24
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    24The servants of Saul told him, saying, "David spoke like this."

  • 2 Sam 2:4-5
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    74%

    4The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, saying, "The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul."

    5David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, "Blessed are you by Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.

  • 1 Sam 20:1-3
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    74%

    1David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"

    2He said to him, "Far from it; you shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small, but that he discloses it to me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so."

    3David swore moreover, and said, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes; and he says, 'Don't let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved:' but truly as Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death."

  • 1 Sam 14:44
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    44Saul said, "God do so and more also; for you shall surely die, Jonathan."

  • 2 Sam 1:27
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    27How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!"

  • 1 Sam 19:1
    73%

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

  • 2 Sam 21:12
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    12David 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 22:22
    73%

    22David said to Abiathar, "I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I am responsible for the death of all the persons of your father's house.

  • 1 Sam 25:12
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    12So David's young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.

  • 1 Sam 19:5-7
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    5for 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?"

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

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

  • 1 Sam 31:2
    73%

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

  • 2 Sam 9:1
    73%

    1David said, "Is there yet any who is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?"

  • 1 Sam 14:17
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    17Then 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 Sam 11:5
    73%

    5Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, "What ails the people that they weep?" They told him the words of the men of Jabesh.

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    73%

    9David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeks your hurt?'

  • 1 Sam 14:1
    73%

    1Now 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 Chr 10:5
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    5When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died.

  • 2 Sam 12:19
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    19But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" They said, "He is dead."

  • 1 Chr 10:8
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    8It happened on the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

  • 2 Sam 1:22
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    22From 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.

  • 1 Sam 31:5
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    5When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell on his sword, and died with him.

  • 1 Sam 17:31
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    31When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

  • 1 Kgs 1:43
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    43Jonathan answered Adonijah, "Most certainly our lord king David has made Solomon king.

  • 1 Sam 24:16
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    16It came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words to Saul, that Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

  • 1 Sam 19:3
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    3I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will talk with my father about you; and if I see anything, I will tell you."