2 Samuel 1:21 Cross References - BBE

²¹ O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, you fields of death: for there the arms of the strong have been shamed, the arms of Saul, as if he had not been marked with the holy oil.

²³ A curse, a curse on Meroz! said the angel of the Lord. A bitter curse on her townspeople! Because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the strong ones.

¹ Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on his head and gave him a kiss and said, Is not the Lord with the holy oil making you ruler over Israel, his people? and you will have authority over the people of the Lord, and you will make them safe from the hands of their attackers round about them, and this will be the sign for you:

¹ Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel: and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.

¹ Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel; and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.

⁸ Now the day after, when the Philistines came to take their goods from the dead, they saw Saul and his sons dead in Mount Gilboa.

³ Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world. ⁴ That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it; ⁵ Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it. ⁶ That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. ⁷ As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it; ⁸ Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake. ⁹ Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn. ¹⁰ Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

⁶ And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

⁵ They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.

¹⁴ A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me. ¹⁵ A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad. ¹⁶ May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;

¹⁵ This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him.

⁹ The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.

¹⁴ May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?