Then David sang this funeral song over Saul and over Jonathan his son.

The king sang a lament for Abner and said, "Should Abner have died the death of a fool?

Therefore I counsel that all Israel should be generally gathered to thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou shouldst go to battle in thy own person.

David sang to the Lord the words of this song when the Lord rescued him from the power of all his enemies, including Saul.