Bible verse
and he ordered that the sons of Judah be taught the Song of the Bow. It is written in the Book of Jashar:
2 Samuel 1:18 · BSB
The verses around it, from 2 Samuel 1.
14 So David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”
15 Then David summoned one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him!” So the young man struck him down, and he died.
16 For David had said to the Amalekite, “Your blood be on your own head because your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I killed the LORD’s anointed.’”
17 Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,
18 and he ordered that the sons of Judah be taught the Song of the Bow. It is written in the Book of Jashar:
19 “Your glory, O Israel, lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
20 Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
21 O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
22 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not retreat, and the sword of Saul did not return empty.
KJV
(Also he bade them teach the children of Judah [the use of] the bow: behold, [it is] written in the book of Jasher.)
ASV
(and he bade them teach the children of Judah the song of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):
ERV
And he bade them teach the children of Judah the song of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jashar.
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