2 Kings 1:19
The illustrious of Israel are slain upon thy mountains: how are the valiant fallen?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Inclyti Israël super montes tuos interfecti sunt : quomodo ceciderunt fortes ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Στήλωσον, Ἰσραήλ, ὑπὲρ τῶν τεθνηκότων ἐπὶ τὰ ὕψη σου τραυματιῶν· πῶς ἔπεσαν δυνατοί.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הַצְּבִי֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עַל בָּמוֹתֶ֖יךָ חָלָ֑ל אֵ֖יךְ נָפְל֥וּ גִבּוֹרִֽים
Haydock's commentary
Illustrious. Hebrew, "the glory (beauty, hart, &c.) of Israel hath been pierced," &c. The comparison of Saul with a hart, is noble enough in the ideas of the ancients, Psalm xvii. 34., Canticle of Canticles ii. 9., and viii. 14. Syriac and Arabic, "O hart of Israel, they have been slain," &c. (Calmet)
Slain. Hebrew chalal, signifies also "a soldier;" and this word agrees perfectly well with giborim, "valiant," both here and ver. 22 and 25. Kennicott would apply it to Jonathan, upon whom David's attention is mostly fixed. "O ornament of Israel! O warrior, upon thy high places! How," &c. (Haydock)
In this manner many such pieces commence, Lamentations i. (Tirinus)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.