5Then David said to the young man who brought him the report, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"


In Context

2 On the third day a man arrived from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and with dust on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him honor.

3 "Where have you come from?" David asked him. He answered, "I have escaped from the Israelite camp."

4 "What happened?" David asked. "Tell me." He said, "The men fled from the battle. Many of them fell and died. And Saul and his son Jonathan are dead."

5 Then David said to the young man who brought him the report, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"

6 "I happened to be on Mount Gilboa," the young man said, "and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and riders almost upon him.

7 When he turned around and saw me, he called out to me, and I said, 'What can I do?'

2nd Samuel 1:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:5And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:5And David said to the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:5And David said to the young man that told him: How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son, are dead?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:5And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:5And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:5And David said to the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:5David said to the young man who told him, |How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:5And David saith unto the youth who is declaring it to him, 'How hast thou known that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:5And David said to the young man that told him, How know you that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?