2 Samuel 21:17

New American Bible - revised edition

but Abishai, son of Zeruiah, came to help him, and struck and killed the Philistine. Then David’s men swore to him, “You must not go out to battle with us again, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”

Cross References

1 Kings 11:36

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

2 Samuel 18:3

But they replied: “You must not come out with us. For if we flee, no one will care; even if half of us die, no one will care. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that we have you to help us from the city.”

Psalm 132:17

There I will make a horn sprout for David; I will set a lamp for my anointed.

1 Kings 15:4

Yet for David’s sake the Lord, his God, gave him a holding in Jerusalem, raising up his son after him and permitting Jerusalem to endure,

John 5:35

He was a burning and shining lamp, and for a while you were content to rejoice in his light.

Psalm 144:10

You give victory to kings; you delivered David your servant. From the menacing sword

Psalm 46:1

For the leader. A song of the Korahites. According to alamoth.

2 Samuel 22:29

You are my lamp, O Lord! My God brightens the darkness about me.

2 Samuel 22:19

They attacked me on a day of distress, but the Lord came to my support.

2 Samuel 14:7

Then the whole clan confronted your servant and demanded: ‘Give up the one who struck down his brother. We must put him to death for the life of his brother whom he has killed; we must do away with the heir also.’ Thus they will quench my remaining hope and leave my husband neither name nor posterity upon the earth.”

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Johanan, son of Kareah, said secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah: “Please let me go and kill Ishmael, son of Nethaniah; no one will know it. What if he assassinates you? All the Judahites who have now rallied behind you would scatter and the remnant of Judah would perish.”

2 Samuel 18:2

David then divided the troops three ways, a third under Joab, a third under Abishai, son of Zeruiah and brother of Joab, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the troops, “I intend to go out with you myself.”