2 Samuel 1:27
New International Version
“How the mighty have fallen! The weapons of war have perished!”

New Living Translation
Oh, how the mighty heroes have fallen! Stripped of their weapons, they lie dead.

English Standard Version
“How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war perished!”

Berean Standard Bible
How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!”

King James Bible
How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

New King James Version
“How the mighty have fallen, And the weapons of war perished!”

New American Standard Bible
“How the mighty have fallen, And the weapons of war have perished!”

NASB 1995
“How have the mighty fallen, And the weapons of war perished!”

NASB 1977
“How have the mighty fallen, And the weapons of war perished!”

Legacy Standard Bible
How have the mighty fallen, And the weapons of war perished!”

Amplified Bible
“How the mighty have fallen, And the weapons of war have perished!”

Christian Standard Bible
How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!

American Standard Version
How are the mighty fallen, And the weapons of war perished!

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
How the mighty ones have fallen, and the weapons of war are destroyed!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

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

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

English Revised Version
How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

GOD'S WORD® Translation
See how the mighty have fallen! See how the weapons of war have been destroyed!"

Good News Translation
"The brave soldiers have fallen, their weapons abandoned and useless."

International Standard Version
How the valiant have fallen! How the weapons of war are destroyed!"

JPS Tanakh 1917
How are the mighty fallen, And the weapons of war perished!

Literal Standard Version
How the mighty have fallen, | Indeed, the weapons of war perish!”

Majority Standard Bible
How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!”

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

NET Bible
How the warriors have fallen! The weapons of war are destroyed!

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

New Heart English Bible
How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished."

Webster's Bible Translation
How have the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

World English Bible
How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!”

Young's Literal Translation
How have the mighty fallen, Yea, the weapons of war perish!'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
David's Song for Saul and Jonathan
26I grieve for you, Jonathan, my brother. You were delightful to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women. 27How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!”

Cross References
2 Samuel 1:19
"Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!

2 Samuel 1:25
How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.

Isaiah 13:5
They are coming from faraway lands, from the ends of the heavens--the LORD and the weapons of His wrath--to destroy the whole country.


Treasury of Scripture

How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!

How are

2 Samuel 1:19,25
The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen! …

weapons

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

2 Kings 13:14
Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died. And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.

Psalm 46:9
He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

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2 Samuel 1
1. The Amalekite who accused himself of Saul's death is slain
17. David laments Saul and Jonathan with a song














Verse 27. - How are the mighty fallen! This lament, which occurs three times, is the central thought of the elegy. Glorious and noble in their pest lives, the heroes had now fallen, not as Wolfe fell at Quebec, with the shout of victory in his ears, but in the lost battle. And David seeks relief for his distress in dwelling upon the sad contrast between the splendid victories which Saul had won for Israel when first chosen to be king, and the terrible defeat by which life and kingdom had now been lost.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
How
אֵ֚יךְ (’êḵ)
Interjection
Strong's 349: How?, how!, where

the mighty
גִבּוֹרִ֔ים (ḡib·bō·w·rîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 1368: Powerful, warrior, tyrant

have fallen
נָפְל֣וּ (nā·p̄ə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5307: To fall, lie

and the weapons
כְּלֵ֥י (kə·lê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3627: Something prepared, any apparatus

of war
מִלְחָמָֽה׃ (mil·ḥā·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4421: A battle, war

have perished!”
וַיֹּאבְד֖וּ (way·yō·ḇə·ḏū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish


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