Elegy

A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Elegy’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

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Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

2 Samuel 1:17 OT

David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
2 Samuel 1:19-27 OT

“Your glory, Israel, was slain on your high places! How the mighty have fallen! Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t publish it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised…
2 Samuel 3:33 OT

The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies?
2 Samuel 3:34 OT

Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.” All the people wept again over him.
Lamentations 1:1-22 OT

How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave! She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks.…