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21 You hills of Gilboa!
    Let there be no dew or rain on you,
    and no fields yielding grain offerings.[a]
Because it was there that the mighty warrior’s[b] shield was defiled—
    the shield of Saul!—never again anointed with oil.
22 Jonathan’s bow never wavered from the blood of the slain,
    from the gore of the warriors.
        Never did Saul’s sword return empty.
23 Saul and Jonathan! So well loved, so dearly cherished!
    In their lives and in their deaths they were never separated.
They were faster than eagles,
    stronger than lions!

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:21 Heb uncertain, perhaps bountiful fields; alternatively, with LXXL, fields of death, or with correction and no springs from the deep
  2. 2 Samuel 1:21 Or warriors’ (plural)

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