21 (A)“You mountains of Gilboa,
    let there be no dew or rain upon you,
    nor fields of offerings![a]
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
    the shield of Saul, not (B)anointed with oil.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:21 Septuagint firstfruits

The Death of Saul

31 (A)Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain (B)on Mount Gilboa.

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(A)They prepare the table,
    they spread the rugs,[a]
    they eat, they drink.
Arise, O princes;
    (B)oil the shield!

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  1. Isaiah 21:5 Or they set the watchman

Saul Anointed King

10 (A)Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head (B)and kissed him and said, “Has not the Lord anointed you to be prince[a] over (C)his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the Lord and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you to be prince[b] over his heritage.

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  1. 1 Samuel 10:1 Or leader
  2. 1 Samuel 10:1 Septuagint; Hebrew lacks over his people Israel? And you shall…. to be prince

14 (A)Who knows whether he will not turn and relent,
    and (B)leave a blessing behind him,
(C)a grain offering and a drink offering
    for the Lord your God?

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(A)The grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
    from the house of the Lord.
(B)The priests mourn,
    (C)the ministers of the Lord.

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15 “Thus says the Lord God: On the day (A)the cedar[a] went down to Sheol I caused mourning; I closed the deep over it, and restrained its rivers, and many waters were stopped. I clothed Lebanon in gloom for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it.

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  1. Ezekiel 31:15 Hebrew it

14 (A)Cursed be the day
    on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
    let it not be blessed!
15 Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father,
“A son is born to you,”
    (B)making him very glad.
16 Let that man be like (C)the cities
    that the Lord overthrew without pity;
(D)let him hear a cry in the morning
    and an alarm at noon,

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I will make it a waste;
    it shall not be pruned or hoed,
    and (A)briers and thorns shall grow up;
(B)I will also command the clouds
    that they rain no rain upon it.

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(A)“Let the day perish on which I was born,
    and the night that said,
    ‘A man is conceived.’
Let that day be darkness!
    May God above not seek it,
    nor light shine upon it.
Let gloom and (B)deep darkness claim it.
    Let clouds dwell upon it;
    let the blackness of the day terrify it.
That night—let thick darkness seize it!
    Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
    let it not come into the number of the months.
Behold, let that night be barren;
    let no joyful cry enter it.
Let those curse it who curse the day,
    who are ready to rouse up (C)Leviathan.
Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
    let it hope for light, but have none,
    nor see (D)the eyelids of the morning,
10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb,
    nor hide trouble from my eyes.

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The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

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The Death of Saul and His Sons

10 (A)Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

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23 “Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord,
    curse its inhabitants thoroughly,
(A)because they did not come to the help of the Lord,
    to the help of the Lord against the mighty.

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