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16 David said to the [fallen] man, “[a]Your blood is on your own head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the Lord’s anointed.’”

David’s Dirge for Saul and Jonathan

17 Then David sang this dirge (funeral song) over Saul and his son Jonathan, 18 and he told them to teach the sons of Judah, the song of the bow. Behold, it is written in [b]the Book of Jashar:

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:16 I.e. your death is your own fault.
  2. 2 Samuel 1:18 An early poetic account of the wars of Israel and the heroic acts of the warriors.

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