O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil. Cross References 1 Samuel 31:1 Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them, and many fell slain on Mount Gilboa. Song of Solomon 4:4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors. Isaiah 21:5 They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields! Ezekiel 31:15 This is what the Lord GOD says: 'On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I caused mourning. I covered the deep because of it; I held back its rivers; its abundant waters were restrained. I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field fainted because of it. Treasury of Scripture You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, on you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil. mountains 1 Samuel 31:1 1 Chronicles 10:1,8 no dew Judges 5:23 Job 3:3-10 Isaiah 5:6 offerings Joel 1:9 Joel 2:14 not. 1 Samuel 10:1 Isaiah 21:5 |