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2Sam 1:16

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

2Sam 1:16 · Douay-Rheims
“And 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.”
Patristic before A.D. 750
420
A.D.
Jerome Patristic
c. A.D. 347–420
“Hence, "his blood will come upon him," that is, he will be the cause of his own death, according to which principle David said to the one who had announced Saul's death and had related that the king of Israel fell on his own sword: "Your blood be upon your head." Not by my sentence, but by the blood of Saul will your blood be spilled.”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.