2 Samuel 1:27
Good News Translation
"The brave soldiers have fallen, their weapons abandoned and useless."

New Revised Standard Version
How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

Contemporary English Version
Our warriors have fallen, and their weapons are destroyed.

New American Bible
How can the warriors have fallen, the weapons of war have perished!

Douay-Rheims Bible
How are the valiant fallen, and the weapons of war perished?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

How are the valiant fallen, and the weapons of war perished?

How are

2 Samuel 1:19,25 The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen? . . .

weapons

2 Kings 2:12 And Eliseus saw him, and cried: My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the driver thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own garments, and rent them in two pieces.

2 Kings 13:14 Now Eliseus was sick of the illness whereof he died: and Joas, king of Israel, went down to him, and wept before him, and said: O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the guider thereof.

Psalm 46:9 Making wars to cease even to the end of the earth. He shall destroy the bow, and break the weapons: and the shield he shall burn in the fire.

Ezekiel 39:9,10 And the inhabitants shall go forth of the cities of Israel, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, the shields, and the spears, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves and the pikes: and they shall burn them with fire seven years. . . .

Context
David's Song for Saul and Jonathan
26I grieve for thee, my brother Jonathan: exceeding beautiful, and amiable to me above the love of women. As the mother loveth her only son, so did I love thee. 27How are the valiant fallen, and the weapons of war perished?
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:19
The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen?

2 Samuel 1:25
How are the valiant fallen in battle? Jonathan slain in the high places?

Isaiah 13:5
To them that come from a country afar off, from the end of heaven: the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, to destroy the whole land.

2 Samuel 1:26
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