How the mighty have fallen in the middle of the battle! Jonathan was slain on your high places.
Parallel translations
- KJV How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
- BSB How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
- NKJV “How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan was slain in your high places.
- NASB “How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slaughtered on your high places.
- NLT Oh, how the mighty heroes have fallen in battle! Jonathan lies dead on the hills.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- 2 Sam 1:19“Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen!
- 2 Sam 1:27How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war have perished!”
- 1 Sam 14:13–15Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor bearer killed them after him.
- Judg 5:18Zebulun was a people that jeopardized their lives to the death; Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.
- Lam 5:16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
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