2 Samuel 21:17

American King James Version (1999)

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, You shall go no more out with us to battle, that you quench not the light of Israel.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:7

And, behold, the whole family is risen against your handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the earth.

2 Samuel 18:2

And David sent forth a third part of the people under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, I will surely go forth with you myself also.

2 Samuel 18:3

But the people answered, You shall not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now you are worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that you succor us out of the city.

2 Samuel 22:19

They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.

2 Samuel 22:29

For you are my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

1 Kings 11:36

And to his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.

1 Kings 15:4

Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

Psalm 132:17

There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.

Psalm 144:10

It is he that gives salvation to kings: who delivers David his servant from the hurtful sword.

Psalm 46:1

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly saying, Let me go, I pray you, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why should he slay you, that all the Jews which are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?

John 5:35

He was a burning and a shining light: and you were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.