...Askelon: lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither...shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oyl. Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided:...

...Thus the lament of Israel's sweetest singer: "The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places! ... Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither...Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil. . . . How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!" And thus the epitaph: "So Saul died for...

...of the uncircumcised triumph. 21 Ye mountains of Gilboa. let there he no dew. neither let there he adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that...food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine ene us thouith he hud not been anointed with oil. 22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty,...

...places: how are the mighty fallen! ... Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let their be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there...Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil' (2 Samuel 1: 19 & 21). Perhaps one should say no more than George Eliot's phrasing frequently strikes...

...Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither...Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil. From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the...

...the clouds — Who can utter such a command? Who can command the clouds? At one time David had said, "Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither...let there be rain upon you, nor fields of offerings" (2 Sam. 1:21). David, however, was uttering a mere wish; he was not attempting to tell the clouds what...

...of a copyist who was misled by the resemblance of the words, and the original text would have read, "Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain upon you, nor upsurging of the deep." Burrows acknowledges that one cannot say this explanation is certain but feels...

...rain, nor fields whence heave offerings come. For there the shields of the mighty were cast from them: the shield of Saul as though he had not been anointed with oil. The bow of Jonathas and the sword of Saul turned never back again empty, from the blood of the wounded...

...throne's vacancy. Saul and Jonathan have both fallen on Mount Gilboa, in the wars with the Philistines: Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither...Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil. . . . Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided:...

...mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew nor rain upon you, for there the shield of the mighty is defiled, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil. Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided:...