 | 1839 - 580 pages
...death of Saul and Jonathan, does not omit to mention this among the subjects of national regret, " Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields o( offerings : for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away." The length of these shields... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - Bibles - 1978 - 644 pages
...Lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. 21 Ye mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew, neither...Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil. 22 From the blood of the slain, From the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan turned not back, And... | |
 | John Calhoun Stephens - Literary Collections - 840 pages
...of Askelon: lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew,...shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oyl. Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided:... | |
 | Don M. Wardlaw - Religion - 1983 - 180 pages
...Thus the lament of Israel's sweetest singer: "The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places! ... Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither...Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil. . . . How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!" And thus the epitaph: "So Saul died for... | |
 | Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...of the uncircumcised triumph. 21 Ye mountains of Gilboa. let there he no dew. neither let there he adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that...food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine ene us thouith he hud not been anointed with oil. 22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty,... | |
 | Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - American literature - 1987 - 248 pages
...places: how are the mighty fallen! ... Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let their be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there...Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil' (2 Samuel 1: 19 & 21). Perhaps one should say no more than George Eliot's phrasing frequently strikes... | |
 | Edward J. Young - Religion - 1992 - 556 pages
...the clouds — Who can utter such a command? Who can command the clouds? At one time David had said, "Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither...let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings" (2 Sam. 1:21). David, however, was uttering a mere wish; he was not attempting to tell the clouds what... | |
 | Joseph P. Free, Howard Frederic Vos - Religion - 1992 - 324 pages
...of a copyist who was misled by the resemblance of the words, and the original text would have read, "Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor upsurging of the deep." Burrows acknowledges that one cannot say this explanation is certain but feels... | |
 | Avi Erlich - Religion - 2010 - 298 pages
...throne's vacancy. Saul and Jonathan have both fallen on Mount Gilboa, in the wars with the Philistines: Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither...Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil. . . . Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided:... | |
 | Alicia Ostriker - Bibles - 1994 - 284 pages
...of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you. . . . From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back,... | |
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Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil. 
