2 Samuel 1:5
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
Then David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”
In context
3 “Where have you come from?” David asked. “I have escaped from the Israelite camp,” he replied.
4 “What was the outcome?” David asked. “Please tell me.” “The troops fled from the battle,” he replied. “Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”
5 Then David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”
6 “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and the cavalry closing in on him.
7 When he turned around and saw me, he called out and I answered, ‘Here I am!’
2 Samuel 1:5 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Then David asked the young man who had brought him the report, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”
- KJV King James Version
- And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
- WEB World English Bible
- David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?”
- ASV American Standard Version
- And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And David saith unto the youth who is declaring [it] to him, 'How hast thou known that Saul and Jonathan his son [are] dead?'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And David said to the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?
- WBS Webster Bible
- And David said to the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?