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2Sa_1:5 And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
Ver. 5. Unto the young man.] The lad, the stripling, the servant, for so David took him to be: and such are called lads or boys in many languages. "Herod said to his servants"; {Mat_14:2} Gr., to his boys. And the Latins call the body Corpus or Corpor, quasi Cordis puer, as some will have it.
That Saul and Jonathan his son be dead.] For there lay the pinch of his grief, and the public concernment.