2 Samuel 21:17

New King James Version

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “You shall go out no more with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel.”

Cross References

1 Kings 11:36

And to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen for Myself, to put My name there.

2 Samuel 18:3

But the people answered, “You shall not go out! For if we flee away, they will not care about us; nor if half of us die, will they care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us now. For you are now more help to us in the city.”

Psalm 132:17

There I will make the horn of David grow; I will prepare a lamp for My Anointed.

1 Kings 15:4

Nevertheless for David’s sake the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by setting up his son after him and by establishing Jerusalem;

John 5:35

He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.

Psalm 144:10

The One who gives salvation to kings, Who delivers David His servant From the deadly sword.

Psalm 46:1

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

2 Samuel 22:29

“For You are my lamp, O Lord; The Lord shall enlighten my darkness.

2 Samuel 22:19

They confronted me in the day of my calamity, But the Lord was my support.

2 Samuel 14:7

And now the whole family has risen up against your maidservant, and they said, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may execute him for the life of his brother whom he killed; and we will destroy the heir also.’ So they would extinguish my ember that is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the earth.”

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, “Let me go, please, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he murder you, so that all the Jews who are gathered to you would be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?”

2 Samuel 18:2

Then David sent out one third of the people under the hand of Joab, one third under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab’s brother, and one third under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, “I also will surely go out with you myself.”