Lexicon :: Strong's H2491 - ḥālāl

“Behold, a people rises up like a lioness

And lifts itself up like a lion;

He will not lie down until he devours the prey

And drinks the blood of the slain.”

“If someone is found slain, lying in the field, in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, and it is not known who has killed him,

‘I will make My arrows drunk with blood,

And My sword will devour flesh,

With the blood of the slain and the captives,

From the heads of the leaders of the enemy.’

Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow by this time I am going to hand over all of them slain [by the sword] to Israel; you shall hamstring (disable) their horses and set fire to their chariots.”

When the people saw Samson, they praised their god, for they said,

“Our god has handed over our enemy to us,

The ravager of our country,

Who has killed many of us.”

Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before them and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

The next day, when the Philistines came to plunder the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

“Your glory and splendor, O Israel, is slain upon your high places!

How the mighty have fallen!

“From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty,

The bow of Jonathan did not turn back,

And the sword of Saul did not return empty.

“How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle!

Jonathan lies slain upon your high places.

These are the names of the mighty men (warriors) whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth, a Tahchemonite, chief of the [fn]captains, also called Adino the Eznite (spear) because of the [fn]eight hundred men killed [by him] at one time.

Now Abishai the brother of Joab the son of Zeruiah was chief of the [fn]thirty. He wielded his spear against three hundred men and killed them, and gained a reputation beside the three.

Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from them and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.

It came about the next day, when the Philistines came to strip (plunder) the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

Abishai the brother of Joab was chief of the [other] [fn]three, and he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and he had a name as well as the three.

“From the [populous and crowded] city men groan,

And the souls of the wounded cry out for help;

Yet God [seemingly] does not pay attention to the wrong [done to them].

“His young ones suck up blood;

And where the slain are, there is he.”

For they have persecuted him whom You have struck,

And they tell of the pain of those whom You have pierced and wounded.

[fn]Cast away [from the living] and abandoned among the dead,

Like the slain who lie in a [nameless] grave,

Whom You no longer remember,

And they are cut off from Your hand.

You have crushed Rahab (Egypt) like one who is slain;

You have scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

For she has cast down many [mortally] wounded;

Indeed, all who were killed by her were strong.

You [Jerusalem] who were full of noise,

A tumultuous city, a joyous and exuberant city;

Your slain were not slain [in a glorious death] with the sword,

Nor did they die in battle.

So their slain will be thrown out,

And the stench of their corpses will rise,

And the mountains will flow with their blood.

For the LORD will execute judgment by fire

And by His sword on all mankind,

And those slain by the LORD will be many.

Oh that my head were waters

And my eyes a fountain of tears,

That I might weep day and night

For the slain of the daughter of my people!

‘If I go out into the field,

Then I gaze on those slaughtered with the sword!

And if I enter the city,

Then I gaze on [those tormented with] the diseases of famine!

For both prophet and priest [who should have guided the people]

Go about [bewildered and exiled] in a land (Babylon) that they do not know or understand.’”

“And those slain by the LORD on that day will be from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. They will not be lamented (mourned over with expressions of grief) or gathered or buried; they will be like dung on the ground.

Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the corpses of the men whom he had killed along with Gedaliah was the one which King Asa [of Judah] had made [about three hundred years earlier] on account of King Baasha of Israel [believing that Baasha would lay siege to Mizpah]. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [the bodies of] those who were killed.

“They shall fall down dead in the land of the Chaldeans,

And wounded in her streets.”

Therefore behold (listen carefully), the days are coming

When I will judge and punish the idols of Babylon;

Her whole land will be perplexed and shamed,

And all her slain will fall in her midst.

Indeed Babylon is to fall for the slain of Israel,

As also for Babylon the slain of all the earth have fallen.