2 Samuel 1:19-27

2 Samuel 1:19

I. One of the first lessons impressed upon us by this lament relates to David's noble-minded forgetfulness of all personal injury.

II. The lament shows how David was able to take the highest and brightest view of human character.

III. The lament impresses us with the beauty of a zealous and tender care for the reputation of the Lord's anointed.

IV. The lament shows how bitter is the distress which follows the irreparable losses of life.

The application of the whole: (1) Let us so live that death will be but a momentary separation. (2) In commending the wonderful love of Jonathan let us remember that there is a Friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

Parker, City Temple,vol. i., p. 359.

References: 2 Samuel 1:20. J. Edmunds, Fifteen Sermons,p. 123. 2 Samuel 1:21. G. Brooks, Outlines of Sermons,1887, p. 414.