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New American Standard Bible (NASB)

2 Samuel 1
¹⁰ So I stood beside him and killed him, because I knew that he could not live after he had fallen. And I took the crown which was on his head and the bracelet which was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord."
¹¹ Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so also did all the men who were with him.
¹² They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan and for the people of the Lord and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
¹³ David said to the young man who told him, "Where are you from?" And he answered, "I am the son of an alien, an Amalekite."
¹⁴ Then David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?"
¹⁵ And David called one of the young men and said, "Go, cut him down." So he struck him and he died.
¹⁶ David said to him, "Your blood is on your head, for your mouth has testified against you, saying, ’I have killed the Lord’s anointed.’"
¹⁷ Then David chanted with this lament over Saul and Jonathan his son,
¹⁸ and he told them to teach the sons of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar.
¹⁹ "Your beauty, O Israel, is slain on your high places! How have the mighty fallen!
²⁰ "Tell it not in Gath, Proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, Or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice, The daughters of the uncircumcised will exult.