Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan

Lamentation for Saul and Jonathan

Here is the song David wrote for Saul and Jonathan: 2 Samuel 1:19 – “Your beauty, Israel, lies slain on your high places! O, how the valiant have fallen! 20 – Don’t make it known in Gath! Don’t declare it in the avenues of Ashkelon! Otherwise, the daughters of the uncircumcised will triumph. 21 – Mountains of Gilboa, let no dew or rain fall on you, and may none of your fields be filled with plenty, because in that place the shield of the valiant ones was defiled, the shield of Saul without an anointing with oil.

Verse 22 – From the blood of the slain, from the blood of the valiant, Jonathan’s bow would not retreat nor would Saul’s sword return empty. 23 – Saul and Jonathan, loved and handsome in life, in death were not separated. Swifter than eagles they were, and more valiant than lions. 24 – Daughters of Israel, weep over Saul! He clothed you in scarlet luxury and decorated your garments with gold.

Verse 25 – How have the valiant fallen in the tumult of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your high places. 26 – I am in distress for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been most kind to me. Your love for me was extraordinary – beyond love from women. 27 – How the valiant have fallen! How the weapons of war are destroyed!”

David learned of the deaths of Saul and Jonathan from an Amalekite who took false credit for Saul’s death and presented David with Saul’s crown and bracelet. The foolish Amalekite was executed as a result of his claim. David did not rejoice over the deaths of Saul and Jonathan. He even made special mention of the kindness and love of Jonathan, his best friend.

One day lamentations like these will be a left in the distant past. We will remember the bravery, the kindness, and the love of those that have fallen, but the death, grief, crying and pain will disappear according to Revelation 21:4

Revelation 21:5 continues – The one sitting on the throne said, “See, I am making all things new!” He said, “Write this: ‘These words are trustworthy and true.’” 6 – Then he told me, “It has happened! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will freely give a drink from the spring of the water of life to the one who is thirsty. 7 – The person who conquers will inherit these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.

Saul was given a new heart and a place given to him at the table of the King of kings as a son of God – but, unfortunately, he gave it back and was conquered by his enemies.

Let us discover from Jesus, like the woman at the well, that we are thirsty for the water of life. Let us be conquerors in Jesus’ name and inherit all that He has planned to give us. Let us be God’s sons and daughters now and for eternity!