16David said to him, |Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have slain Yahweh's anointed.'|


In Context

13 David said to the young man who told him, |Where are you from?| He answered, |I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite.|

14 David said to him, |How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?|

15 David called one of the young men, and said, |Go near, and fall on him.| He struck him, so that he died.

16 David said to him, |Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have slain Yahweh's anointed.'|

17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

18 (and he commanded them to teach the children of Judah the song of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):

2 Samuel 1:16 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:16For David had said to him, "Your blood be on your own head. Your own mouth testified against you when you said, 'I killed the Lord 's anointed.' "

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:16And David said unto him, Thy blood [be] upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD’S anointed.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:16And David said to him: Thy blood be upon thy own head: for thy own mouth hath spoken against thee, saying: I have slain the Lord's anointed.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:16And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain Jehovah's anointed.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:16And David said to him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth has testified against thee, saying, I have slain Jehovah's anointed.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:16And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:16And David said to him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the LORD'S anointed.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:16and David saith unto him, 'Thy blood is on thine own head, for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I — I put to death the anointed of Jehovah.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:16And David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain the LORD's anointed.