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Text -- 2 Samuel 1:1-16 (NET)
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David Learns of the Deaths of Saul and Jonathan
1:1 After the death of Saul , when David had returned from defeating the Amalekites , he stayed at Ziklag for two days .
1:2 On the third day a man arrived from the camp of Saul with his clothes torn and dirt on his head . When he approached David , the man threw himself to the ground .
1:3 David asked him, “Where are you coming from?” He replied , “I have escaped from the camp of Israel .”
1:4 David inquired , “How were things going ? Tell me!” He replied , “The people fled from the battle and many of them fell dead . Even Saul and his son Jonathan are dead !”
1:5 David said to the young man who was telling him this, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead ?”
1:6 The young man who was telling him this said , “I just happened to be on Mount Gilboa and came across Saul leaning on his spear for support. The chariots and leaders of the horsemen were in hot pursuit of him.
1:7 When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me. I answered , ‘Here I am!’
1:8 He asked me, ‘Who are you ?’ I told him, ‘I’m an Amalekite .’
1:9 He said to me, ‘Stand over me and finish me off ! I’m very dizzy , even though I’m still alive .’
1:10 So I stood over him and put him to death , since I knew that he couldn’t live in such a condition . Then I took the crown which was on his head and the bracelet which was on his arm . I have brought them here to my lord .”
1:11 David then grabbed his own clothes and tore them, as did all the men who were with him.
1:12 They lamented and wept and fasted until evening because Saul , his son Jonathan , the Lord’s people , and the house of Israel had fallen by the sword .
1:13 David said to the young man who told this to him, “Where are you from?” He replied , “I am an Amalekite , the son of a resident foreigner .”
1:14 David replied to him, “How is it that you were not afraid to reach out your hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed ?”
1:15 Then David called one of the soldiers and said , “Come here and strike him down !” So he struck him down , and he died .
1:16 David said to him, “Your blood be on your own head ! Your own mouth has testified against you, saying ‘I have put the Lord’s anointed to death .’”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
David |
Ziklag |
Saul |
Lamentations, Book of |
AMALEK; AMALEKITE |
SAMUEL, BOOKS OF |
GILBOA |
Government |
Mourning |
Lies and Deceits |
Forgiveness |
Crown |
YOUNG; MEN, YOUNG WOMEN |
Bracelet |
Homicide |
KING; KINGDOM |
BURIAL |
Rending |
ARMLET |
Messiah |
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NET Notes: 2Sa 1:1 Ziklag was a city in the Negev which had been given to David by Achish king of Gath. For more than a year David used it as a base from which he conduc...
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NET Notes: 2Sa 1:5 Instead of the MT “who was recounting this to him, ‘How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?’” the Syriac Pesh...
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NET Notes: 2Sa 1:6 The Syriac Peshitta and one ms of the LXX lack the words “who was telling him this” of the MT.
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NET Notes: 2Sa 1:8 The present translation reads with the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss “and I said,” rather than the Kethib which has “and he said...
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NET Notes: 2Sa 1:9 The Hebrew text here is grammatically very awkward (Heb “because all still my life in me”). Whether the broken construct phrase is due to ...
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NET Notes: 2Sa 1:10 The claims that the soldier is making here seem to contradict the story of Saul’s death as presented in 1 Sam 31:3-5. In that passage it appears...
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NET Notes: 2Sa 1:11 The present translation follows the Qere and many medieval Hebrew mss in reading “his garments,” rather than “his garment,” th...
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NET Notes: 2Sa 1:13 The Hebrew word used here refers to a foreigner whose social standing was something less than that of native residents of the land, but something more...
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