Let there be no dew ... - For a similar passionate form of poetic malediction, compare Job 3:3-10 and Jeremiah 20:14-18.

Nor field…

Nor fields of offerings. —This somewhat obscure expression seems to mean, “Let there not be upon you those fruitful fields from wh…

You mountains of Gilboa
On which fell Saul and his sons, and many of the people of Israel, (2 Samuel 1:6…

Kasheth, or “the bow,” probably was the title of this mournful, funeral song. David does not commend Saul for what he was not, and says nothing of …