1After the death of Saul, David returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.stylus1 Samuel 27:6, 1 Samuel 27:6, 1 Samuel 30:17, 1 Samuel 30:26, 1 Samuel 31:62On the third day a man with torn clothes and dust on his head arrived from Saul’s camp. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him homage.stylus1 Samuel 4:12, 1 Samuel 4:12, 2 Samuel 4:10, 2 Samuel 4:10, 1 Samuel 25:233“Where have you come from?” David asked. “I have escaped from the Israelite camp,” he replied.stylus2 Kings 5:25, Job 1:15, Job 1:19, 2 Kings 5:25, Job 1:154“What was the outcome?” David asked. “Please tell me.” “The troops fled from the battle,” he replied. “Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”stylus1 Samuel 4:16, 1 Samuel 31:1, 1 Samuel 31:6, 1 Samuel 4:16, 1 Samuel 31:15Then David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”stylusProverbs 25:2, Proverbs 14:15, Proverbs 25:2, Proverbs 14:156“I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and the cavalry closing in on him.stylus1 Samuel 28:4, 1 Samuel 28:4, 1 Samuel 6:9, Luke 10:31, 1 Chronicles 10:47When he turned around and saw me, he called out and I answered, ‘Here I am!’stylus2 Samuel 9:6, 1 Samuel 22:12, Isaiah 6:8, Judges 9:54, Isaiah 65:18‘Who are you?’ he asked. So I told him, ‘I am an Amalekite.’stylus1 Samuel 30:17, 1 Samuel 30:13, 1 Samuel 30:17, 1 Samuel 30:13, 1 Samuel 30:19Then he begged me, ‘Stand over me and kill me, for agony has seized me, but my life still lingers.’stylus10So I stood over him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. And I took the crown that was on his head and the band that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”stylusJudges 9:54, Matthew 7:2, Judges 9:54, Matthew 7:2, 2 Kings 11:1211Then David took hold of his own clothes and tore them, and all the men who were with him did the same.stylus2 Samuel 13:31, 2 Samuel 13:31, 2 Samuel 3:31, Genesis 37:29, 2 Samuel 3:3112They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the people of the LORD and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.stylusMatthew 5:44, Proverbs 24:17, Psalms 35:13, Psalms 35:14, Matthew 5:4413And David inquired of the young man who had brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I am the son of a foreigner,” he answered. “I am an Amalekite.”stylus2 Samuel 1:8, 2 Samuel 1:814So David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”stylus1 Samuel 26:9, 1 Samuel 26:9, Psalms 105:15, 1 Samuel 24:6, 1 Samuel 31:415Then David summoned one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him!” So the young man struck him down, and he died.stylusJob 5:12, 1 Samuel 22:17, 1 Samuel 22:18, Judges 8:20, 2 Samuel 4:1016For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’”stylusMatthew 27:25, Matthew 27:25, Luke 19:22, Luke 19:22, Leviticus 20:917Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,stylus2 Chronicles 35:25, 2 Chronicles 35:25, 2 Samuel 1:19, 2 Samuel 1:19, Jeremiah 9:1718and he ordered that the sons of Judah be taught the Song of the Bow. It is written in the Book of Jashar:stylusJoshua 10:13, Joshua 10:13, Genesis 49:8, Deuteronomy 4:10, Genesis 49:819“Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!stylus2 Samuel 1:27, 2 Samuel 1:27, Deuteronomy 4:7, Deuteronomy 4:8, 2 Samuel 1:2520Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.stylusMicah 1:10, Micah 1:10, 1 Samuel 18:6, 1 Samuel 18:6, Exodus 15:2021O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.stylus1 Samuel 31:1, 1 Samuel 31:1, Isaiah 21:5, Isaiah 21:5, 1 Samuel 10:122From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not retreat, and the sword of Saul did not return empty.stylus1 Samuel 18:4, 1 Samuel 18:4, Isaiah 34:6, Isaiah 34:7, Isaiah 34:623Saul and Jonathan, beloved and delightful in life, were not divided in death. They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.stylusJeremiah 4:13, Jeremiah 4:13, Judges 14:18, Judges 14:18, Proverbs 30:3024O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.stylusIsaiah 3:16, Isaiah 3:26, Jeremiah 2:32, 1 Timothy 2:9, 1 Timothy 2:1025How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.stylus2 Samuel 1:19, 2 Samuel 1:19, 2 Samuel 1:27, 2 Samuel 1:27, Judges 5:1826I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.stylus1 Samuel 20:17, 1 Samuel 20:17, 1 Samuel 23:16, 1 Samuel 20:41, 1 Samuel 18:127How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!”stylus2 Samuel 1:25, 2 Samuel 1:25, 2 Samuel 1:19, 2 Samuel 1:19, 2 Kings 2:12