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2Sa_1:19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!
Ver. 19. The beauty of Israel.] Here beginneth this sad sonnet, whereof this verse is the foot, and is therefore repeated. {2Sa_1:25; 2Sa_1:27} Junius {a} readeth it, O thou beauty of Israel: which is, saith he, a periphrasis of God, of the land, saith Diodate. {Dan_8:9; Dan_11:16} In this short song there are many things to be understood as being concise: the expressions of a man grieved for the death of his dear friends, and done in metre, which causeth a cloud.
How are the mighty fallen!] q.d., By a divine hand doubtless, else they could hardly have been over matched: such notable warriors they were. In the remembrance of many that are yet alive at Ostend in the Netherlands, the most warlike soldiers of Europe, whilst they most eagerly contended for that barren plot of land, had, as it were, one common sepulchre, but an eternal monument of their valour. {b}
{a} Est genus lamentationis cycloides. - Jun. Decus, desiderium, et gloria.
{b} Camd., Elis.