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2 Samuel 1:24

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O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, Who clothed you in scarlet delicately, Who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

KJV

Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

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This verse in 2 Samuel 1

Commentary

9 notes on this verse
The women of Israel are most happily introduced. They who had come out to meet king Saul with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of music” in the day of victory, are now called to weep over him.

This site's exposition

lovely and pleasant in their lives

on 2 Samuel 1:23-24

David praises father and son as one, not divided even in death, and commends only what was genuinely true of them, their swiftness and their strength in war, without crediting Saul a piety Wesley points out David never claims for him. The daughters of Israel are called by name in verse 24 to weep for Saul, for the scarlet and the gold he once gave them in his more prosperous years, a small domestic memory set inside a poem about a fallen kingdom. Barnes reads the address to the women as a deliberate turn, the same women who once sang Saul's victories with tabrets are now summoned to mourn him.

This site's exposition

O daughters of Israel

John Wesley notes that the women of Israel made both the songs of triumph and the songs of lament. Here they are called to mourn the king whose wars had clothed them. Matthew Henry recalls that Saul’s sword came home full of spoil.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening5 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Daughters - These he mentions; because the women then used to make songs both of triumph, and of lamentation, and, because they usually are most delighted with the ornaments of the body here following.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped. 4 And David said unto him, How went the matter? And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

, 27 ), and so the strength of the people is weakened. Public losses are most laid to heart by men of public spirit. David hoped God would make him instrumental to repair those losses and yet laments them.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The daughters of Israel he clothed in scarlet, which was their delight. (2.) He was very grateful to Jonathan, his sworn friend. Besides the tears he shed over him, and the encomiums he gives of him in common with Saul, he mentions him with some marks of distinction (

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Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,....
1 more voice on this verse

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, &c.--The fondness for dress, which anciently distinguished Oriental women, is their characteristic still.

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The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בְּנוֹת֙O daughters of

    benotH1323 →588 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • אֶל־because of

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • שָׁא֖וּלSaul

    shaulH7586 →402 times

  • בְּכֶ֑ינָהweep

    bekheinahH1058 →114 times

  • הַמַּלְבִּֽשְׁכֶ֤םwho clothed you

    hamalbishkhemH3847 →110 times

  • שָׁנִי֙scarlet

    shaniH8144 →

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

  • עֲדָנִ֔יםluxuries

    ʾadanimH5730 →

  • הַֽמַּעֲלֶה֙who brought up

    hamaalehH5927 →890 times

  • עֲדִ֣יornament[s] of

    ʾadiH5716 →

  • זָהָ֔בgold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

  • עַ֖לon

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • לְבוּשְׁכֶֽן׃clothing your

    levushekhenH3830 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

9 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

1 Timothy 2:9–10Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,3 worksJeremiah 2:32Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.3 works1 Peter 3:3–5Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,3 worksIsaiah 3:16–26The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—3 worksJudges 5:30‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?’3 worksLamentations 4:5Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.3 works
The other 3 cross-references, with their words ▾
Proverbs 31:21When it snows, she has no fear for her household, for they are all clothed in scarlet.3 worksActs 9:39So Peter got up and went with them. On his arrival, they took him to the upper room. All the widows stood around him, weeping and showing him the tunics and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.2 worksPsalms 68:12“Kings and their armies flee in haste; she who waits at home divides the plunder.1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 2:32

    Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 106:21

      They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

    • Jeremiah 13:25

      This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.

    • Jeremiah 3:21

      A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.

    • Jeremiah 2:11

      Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

    • Isaiah 17:10

      For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—

  • Through

    Judges 5:30

    ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?’

    it leads to

    • Exodus 15:9

      The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’

    • Psalms 45:14

      In colorful garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions are brought before you.

    • Job 20:5

      the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

Where this verse is studied

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About 2 Samuel

David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
David Mourns the Death of Absalom, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
2 Samuel: the study guide →Read 2 Samuel 1 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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