Lovely and pleasant. —This applies particularly to Jonathan, but also to a large extent to Saul in his earlier years and …

Saul and Jonathan [were] lovely and pleasant in their lives ,
&c.] To one another, had no quarrel or difference with…

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 …