Daughters of Israel Weep Over Saul in Midrash Shmuel

Midrash Shmuel 25:1

"O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in crimson, with delights, who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel" (II Samuel 1:24). Rabbi Yehudah and Rabbi Nechemiah [differ]. Rabbi Yehudah says: the daughters of Israel certainly wept over Saul, for at the time that their husbands went out to war, he would feed them and provide for them and clothe them in crimson with delights. From here [we learn] that ornaments are becoming only upon a delicate body. Rabbi Nechemiah says: "the daughters of Israel" — these are the comely ones of Israel, namely the Sanhedrins of Israel; "weep over Saul" — for at the time that he would hear a point of halakhah issuing from the mouth of the disciples of the sages, he would stand and kiss him upon his mouth.

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