2 Samuel 1:19

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““Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!”

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BSBPD

““Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`The Roebuck, O Israel, On thy high places <FI>is<Fi> wounded; How have the mighty fallen!”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 2 Samuel 1:19 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 4:7For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him?
  2. 1 Samuel 31:8The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
  3. 2 Samuel 1:23Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
  4. 2 Samuel 1:25How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
  5. 2 Samuel 1:27How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!”
  6. Isaiah 4:2On that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.
  7. Isaiah 53:2He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him.
  8. Lamentations 2:1How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
  9. Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
  10. Zechariah 11:7So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.
  11. Zechariah 11:10Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.

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