2╙┴ 1:1 ╬OW IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THE DEATH OF ╙AUL, WHEN ─AVID WAS RETURNED FROM THE SLAUGHTER OF THE ┴MALEKITES, AND ─AVID HAD ABODE TWO DAYS IN ┌IKLAG;
2╙┴ 1:2 ╔T CAME EVEN TO PASS ON THE THIRD DAY, THAT, BEHOLD, A MAN CAME OUT OF THE CAMP FROM ╙AUL WITH HIS CLOTHES RENT, AND EARTH UPON HIS HEAD: AND SO IT WAS, WHEN HE CAME TO ─AVID, THAT HE FELL TO THE EARTH, AND DID OBEISANCE.
2╙┴ 1:3 ┴ND ─AVID SAID UNTO HIM, ╞ROM WHENCE COMEST THOU? ┴ND HE SAID UNTO HIM, ╧UT OF THE CAMP OF ╔SRAEL AM ╔ ESCAPED.
2╙┴ 1:4 ┴ND ─AVID SAID UNTO HIM, ╚OW WENT THE MATTER? ╔ PRAY THEE, TELL ME. ┴ND HE ANSWERED, ╘HAT THE PEOPLE ARE FLED FROM THE BATTLE, AND MANY OF THE PEOPLE ALSO ARE FALLEN AND DEAD; AND ╙AUL AND ╩ONATHAN HIS SON ARE DEAD ALSO.
2╙┴ 1:5 ┴ND ─AVID SAID UNTO THE YOUNG MAN THAT TOLD HIM, ╚OW KNOWEST THOU THAT ╙AUL AND ╩ONATHAN HIS SON BE DEAD?
2╙┴ 1:6 ┴ND THE YOUNG MAN THAT TOLD HIM SAID, ┴S ╔ HAPPENED BY CHANCE UPON MOUNT ╟ILBOA, BEHOLD, ╙AUL LEANED UPON HIS SPEAR; AN , LO, THE CHARIOTS AND HORSEMEN FOLLOWED HARD AFTER HIM.
2╙┴ 1:7 ┴ND WHEN HE LOOKED BEHIND HIM, HE SAW ME, AND CALLED UNTO ME. ┴ND ╔ ANSWERED, ╚ERE AM ╔.
2╙┴ 1:8 ┴ND HE SAID UNTO ME, ╫HO ART THOU? ┴ND ╔ ANSWERED HIM, ╔ AM AN ┴MALEKITE.
2╙┴ 1:9 ╚E SAID UNTO ME AGAIN, ╙TAND, ╔ PRAY THEE, UPON ME, AND SLAY ME: FOR ANGUISH IS COME UPON ME, BECAUSE MY LIFE IS YET WHOLE IN ME.
2╙┴ 1:10 ╙O ╔ STOOD UPON HIM, AND SLEW HIM, BECAUSE ╔ WAS SURE THAT HE COULD NOT LIVE AFTER THAT HE WAS FALLEN: AND ╔ TOOK THE CROWN THAT WAS UPON HIS HEAD, AND THE BRACELET THAT WAS ON HIS ARM, AND HAVE BROUGHT THEM HITHER UNTO MY LORD.
2╙┴ 1:11 ╘HEN ─AVID TOOK HOLD ON HIS CLOTHES, AND RENT THEM; AND LIKEWISE ALL THE MEN THAT WERE WITH HIM:
2╙┴ 1:12 ┴ND THEY MOURNED, AND WEPT, AND FASTED UNTIL EVEN, FOR ╙AUL, AND FOR ╩ONATHAN HIS SON, AND FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE ╠╧╥─, AND FOR THE HOUSE OF ╔SRAEL; BECAUSE THEY WERE FALLEN BY THE SWORD.
2╙┴ 1:13 ┴ND ─AVID SAID UNTO THE YOUNG MAN THAT TOLD HIM, ╫HENCE ART THOU? ┴ND HE ANSWERED, ╔ AM THE SON OF A STRANGER, AN ┴MALEKITE.
2╙┴ 1:14 ┴ND ─AVID SAID UNTO HIM, ╚OW WAST THOU NOT AFRAID TO STRETCH FORTH THINE HAND TO DESTROY THE ╠╧╥─'S ANOINTED?
2╙┴ 1:15 ┴ND ─AVID CALLED ONE OF THE YOUNG MEN, AND SAID, ╟O NEAR, AND FALL UPON HIM. ┴ND HE SMOTE HIM THAT HE DIED.
2╙┴ 1:16 ┴ND ─AVID SAID UNTO HIM, ╘HY BLOOD BE UPON THY HEAD; FOR THY MOUTH HATH TESTIFIED AGAINST THEE, SAYING, ╔ HAVE SLAIN THE ╠╧╥─'S ANOINTED.
2╙┴ 1:17 ┴ND ─AVID LAMENTED WITH THIS LAMENTATION OVER ╙AUL AND OVER ╩ONATHAN HIS SON:
2╙┴ 1:18 (┴LSO HE BADE THEM TEACH THE CHILDREN OF ╩UDAH THE USE OF THE BOW: BEHOLD, IT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF ╩ASHER.)
2╙┴ 1:19 ╘HE BEAUTY OF ╔SRAEL IS SLAIN UPON THY HIGH PLACES: HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN!
2╙┴ 1:20 ╘ELL IT NOT IN ╟ATH, PUBLISH IT NOT IN THE STREETS OF ┴SKELON; LEST THE DAUGHTERS OF THE ╨HILISTINES REJOICE, LEST THE DAUGHTERS OF THE UNCIRCUMCISED TRIUMPH.
2╙┴ 1:21 ┘E MOUNTAINS OF ╟ILBOA, 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 ╙AUL, AS THOUGH HE HAD NOT BEEN ANOINTED WITH OIL.
2╙┴ 1:22 ╞ROM THE BLOOD OF THE SLAIN, FROM THE FAT OF THE MIGHTY, THE BOW OF ╩ONATHAN TURNED NOT BACK, AND THE SWORD OF ╙AUL RETURNED NOT EMPTY.
2╙┴ 1:23 ╙AUL AND ╩ONATHAN WERE LOVELY AND PLEASANT IN THEIR LIVES, AND IN THEIR DEATH THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED: THEY WERE SWIFTER THAN EAGLES, THEY WERE STRONGER THAN LIONS.
2╙┴ 1:24 ┘E DAUGHTERS OF ╔SRAEL, WEEP OVER ╙AUL, WHO CLOTHED YOU IN SCARLET, WITH OTHER DELIGHTS, WHO PUT ON ORNAMENTS OF GOLD UPON YOUR APPAREL.
2╙┴ 1:25 ╚OW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN IN THE MIDST OF THE BATTLE! ╧ ╩ONATHAN, THOU WAST SLAIN IN THINE HIGH PLACES.
2╙┴ 1:26 ╔ AM DISTRESSED FOR THEE, MY BROTHER ╩ONATHAN: VERY PLEASANT HAST THOU BEEN UNTO ME: THY LOVE TO ME WAS WONDERFUL, PASSING THE LOVE OF WOMEN.
2╙┴ 1:27 ╚OW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN, AND THE WEAPONS OF WAR PERISHED!
