How the mighty have fallen in battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights

 2 Samuel 1:1-27

After the death of Saul, David returned from striking down the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days. On the third day a man arrived from Saul’s camp with his clothes torn and dust on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground to pay him honor.

So I stood beside him and killed him, because I knew that after he had fallen he could not survive. And I took the crown that was on his head and the band on his arm and have brought them here to my lord.”

Then David and all the men with him took hold of their clothes and tore them. They mourned and wept and fasted till evening for Saul and his son Jonathan, and for the army of the Lord and for the nation of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

David asked him, “Why weren’t you afraid to lift your hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?” Then David called one of his men and said, “Go, strike him down!” So he struck him down, and he died. For 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.’”

David took up this lament concerning Saul and his son Jonathan, and he ordered that the people of Judah be taught this lament of the bow (it is written in the Book of Jashar)

“How the mighty have fallen in battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights. I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful,  more wonderful than that of women.

“How the mighty have fallen! The weapons of war have perished!”

Why?

David was sad about Saul and Jonathan's death. The messenger might have thought that reporting to David may get a reward, but it didn't for this report he was killed for he killed the Lord's anointed.

David wrote a lament for Saul and Jonathan. because David respected Saul and loved Jonathan, even though Saul wanted to kill David. David respected Saul for he was anointed by the Lord.

From the lament, David remembered what Saul had done for Israel, Saul had many contributions to his country. A man no matter what people say there are two sides to a man.

How?

We grieve for our lover and respected person.