2 Samuel 1:21


O mountains of Gilboa,
Let not dew or rain be upon you, nor fields with offerings;
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
The shield of Saul, [dry, cracked] not anointed with oil.

1 Samuel 31:1

Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

Isaiah 21:5


They set the table [for the doomed banquet], they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink;
“Rise up, captains [of Belshazzar’s court], oil your shields [for battle, for your enemy is at the gates]!”

1 Samuel 10:1

Then Samuel took the flask of oil and poured it on Saul’s head, kissed him, and said, “Has the Lord not anointed you as ruler over His inheritance (Israel)?

Judges 5:23


‘Curse Meroz,’ said the messenger of the Lord,
‘Utterly curse its inhabitants;
Because they did not come to the help of the Lord,
To the help of the Lord against the mighty.’

1 Chronicles 10:1

Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from them and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

1 Chronicles 10:8

It came about the next day, when the Philistines came to strip (plunder) the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

Job 3:3-10


“Let the day on which I was born perish,
And the night which announced: ‘There is a man-child conceived.’

Isaiah 5:6


“I will turn it into a wasteland;
It will not be pruned or cultivated,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.”

Jeremiah 20:14-16


Cursed be the day on which I was born;
Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to me!

Ezekiel 31:15

‘Thus says the Lord God, “On the day when Assyria went down to Sheol (the place of the dead) I caused mourning; I closed the deep [subterranean waters] over it and restrained its rivers. And the many waters [that contributed to its prosperity] were held back; and I made [the heart of] Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away because of it.

Joel 1:9


The [daily] grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
From the house of the Lord;
The priests mourn
Who minister to the Lord.

Joel 2:14


Who knows whether He will relent [and revoke your sentence],
And leave a blessing behind Him,
Even a grain offering and a drink offering [from the bounty He provides you]
For the Lord your God?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon 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.

Offerings

Bible References

Mountains

1 Samuel 31:1
Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
1 Chronicles 10:1
Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from them and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

No dew

Judges 5:23

‘Curse Meroz,’ said the messenger of the Lord,
‘Utterly curse its inhabitants;
Because they did not come to the help of the Lord,
To the help of the Lord against the mighty.’
Job 3:3

“Let the day on which I was born perish,
And the night which announced: ‘There is a man-child conceived.’
Isaiah 5:6

“I will turn it into a wasteland;
It will not be pruned or cultivated,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.”
Jeremiah 20:14

Cursed be the day on which I was born;
Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to me!

Offerings

Joel 1:9

The [daily] grain offering and the drink offering are cut off
From the house of the Lord;
The priests mourn
Who minister to the Lord.
Joel 2:14

Who knows whether He will relent [and revoke your sentence],
And leave a blessing behind Him,
Even a grain offering and a drink offering [from the bounty He provides you]
For the Lord your God?

Anointed

1 Samuel 10:1
Then Samuel took the flask of oil and poured it on Saul’s head, kissed him, and said, “Has the Lord not anointed you as ruler over His inheritance (Israel)?
Isaiah 21:5

They set the table [for the doomed banquet], they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink;
“Rise up, captains [of Belshazzar’s court], oil your shields [for battle, for your enemy is at the gates]!”