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2 Samuel 1:21

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.

2 Samuel 1:21 BSB
  1. a Or no showers falling on your terraced fields; LXX no fields of firstfruits; Hebrew no fields of offerings

2 Samuel 1:21 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Samuel 31:1 (5 votes) and Isaiah 21:5 (4 votes). 16 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Genesis 27 to Joel 2.

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Which verses does 2 Samuel 1:21 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. 1 Samuel 31:15 votes

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

  2. Isaiah 21:54 votes

    They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!

  3. 1 Samuel 10:13 votes

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

  4. Judges 5:232 votes

    ‘Curse Meroz,’ says the angel of the LORD. ‘Bitterly curse her inhabitants; for they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’

  5. 1 Chronicles 10:12 votes

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

  6. 1 Chronicles 10:82 votes

    The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

  7. Job 3:3–102 votes

    “May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’ If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it. …

  8. Isaiah 5:62 votes

    I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

  9. Jeremiah 20:14–162 votes

    Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy. …

  10. Ezekiel 31:152 votes

    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.

  11. Joel 1:92 votes
  12. Joel 2:142 votes

Which verses point to 2 Samuel 1:21?

The 10 strongest of 16.