Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

Bible References

Beauty

2 Samuel 1:23
Saul and Jonathan were loved and desired in their lives, and in their death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Deuteronomy 4:7
For what nation is there so great who has God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
1 Samuel 31:8
And it came to pass on the next day when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in Mount Gilboa.
Isaiah 4:2
In that day the branch of the LORD shall be for beauty and glory and the fruit of the earth for greatness and honour to those that are freed of Israel.
Isaiah 53:2
With all this he shall grow up before him as a tender sprout and as a root out of a dry ground. There is no outward appearance in him, nor beauty. We shall see him, yet nothing attractive about him that we should desire him.
Lamentations 2:1
Aleph How has the Lord darkened the daughter of Zion in his anger! He has cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel and not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger!
Zechariah 11:7
And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. For I took unto me two staves: the one I named Beauty, and the other Bands; and I fed the flock.

How are

2 Samuel 1:25
How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, thou wast slain in thine high places.
Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen from our head; woe now unto us, for we have sinned!