2Sa 1:21 | TNotes | STEP | 1:21 Saul and Jonathan died in the mountains of Gilboa (1 Sam 31:1 ). • let there be no dew or rain: David was invoking a curse on the place of their death. In a Canaanite text from the 1300s BC , a father invokes a very similar curse on the place of his son’s death. • The shield of Saul symbolizes his military exploits as king. It would no longer be anointed with oil for the same reason that Saul was no longer the anointed king, because of his death.

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‏ 2 Samuel 1:21

1:21 ^a Saul and Jonathan died in the mountains of Gilboa (1 Sam 31:1 ^b).

• let there be no dew or rain: David was invoking a curse on the place of their death. In a Canaanite text from the 1300s BC, a father invokes a very similar curse on the place of his son’s death.

• The shield of Saul symbolizes his military exploits as king. It would no longer be anointed with oil for the same reason that Saul was no longer the anointed king, because of his death.