The women of Israel are fittingly introduced. Those who had come out to meet King Saul with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music in…

Clothed you in scarlet. —This refers to Saul’s division among the people of the spoil of his conquered foes, and to the p…

You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul
In their mournful elegies;

who clothed you with scarlet, …

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 …