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Shmuel Bais 1:14-27 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

14. And Dovid said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine yad to destroy Hashem's moshiach?

15. And Dovid called one of the ne'arim, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he struck him so that he died.

16. And Dovid said unto him, Thy dahm be upon thy rosh; for thine own peh hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain Hashem's moshiach.

17. And Dovid lamented with this kinah (lamentation) over Sha'ul and over Yonatan bno;

18. Also he bade them teach the Bnei Yehudah: The Keshet. Hinei, it is written in the Sefer HaYasher:

19. The glory of Yisroel is slain upon thy high places; how are the Gibborim fallen!

20. Tell it not in Gat, proclaim it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the banot Pelishtim rejoice, lest the banot ha'arelim triumph.

21. Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no tal, neither let there be matar, upon you, nor fields of terumot; for there the mogen Gibborim is defiled, the mogen of Sha'ul, as though he had not been mashiach (anointed) with shemen.

22. From the dahm of the slain, from the chelev of the Gibborim, the keshet Yonatan turned not back, and the cherev Sha'ul returned not empty.

23. Sha'ul and Yonatan were beloved and gracious in their lives, and in their mot they were not parted; they were swifter than nesharim, they were stronger than arayot.

24. Ye banot Yisroel, weep over Sha'ul, who clothed you in scarlet, with fineries, who put on ornaments of zahav upon your apparel.

25. How are the Gibborim fallen in the midst of the milchamah! O Yonatan, thou wast slain on thine heights.

26. I am distressed for thee, my brother Yonatan; very pleasant hast thou been unto me; thy ahavah was wonderful to me, passing ahavat nashim.

27. How are the Gibborim fallen, and the k'lei milchamah (weapons of war) perished!

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