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19 
“Your glory and splendor, O Israel, is slain upon your high places!
How the mighty have fallen!
20 
“Tell it not in Gath,
Proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon,
Or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice,
The daughters of the uncircumcised (pagans) will exult.
21 
[a]O mountains of Gilboa,
Let not dew or rain be upon you, nor fields with offerings;
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
The shield of Saul, [dry, cracked] not [b]anointed with oil.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:21 As an expression of his grief David curses the place of Saul’s death.
  2. 2 Samuel 1:21 It was necessary to lubricate leather shields with oil to preserve them.

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