David said to the young man ¹  who was telling him this, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” ² 

biblegateway 2Sa 1:5

So David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"

David asked the young man who had brought him the report, "How do you know Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"

"How do you know Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?" David asked the young man who had brought him the news.

biblegateway 2Sa 1:5

Then David said to the young man who brought him the report, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"

Then David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?"

bibleoremus 2Sa 1:5

Then David asked the young man who was reporting to him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan died?"

David said to the young man who brought the news, “How do you know that Saul and Jonathan are dead?”

biblegateway 2Sa 1:5

So David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?"

And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?

biblegateway 2Sa 1:5

David said to the young man ¹  who was telling him this, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” ² 

¹ tn In v. 2 he is called simply a “man.” The word used here in v. 5 (so also in vv. 6, 13, 15), though usually referring to a young man or servant, may in this context designate a “fighting” man, i.e., a soldier.

² tc Instead of the MT “who was recounting this to him, ‘How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?’” the Syriac Peshitta reads “declare to me how Saul and his son Jonathan died.”