2 Samuel 21:17

The English Standar Version

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah came to his aid and attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then David's men swore to him, "You shall no longer go out with us to battle, lest you quench the lamp of Israel."

Cross References

1 Kings 11:36

Yet to his son I will give one tribe, that David my servant may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my name.

2 Samuel 18:3

But the men said, "You shall not go out. For if we flee, they will not care about us. If half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore it is better that you send us help from the city."

Psalm 132:17

There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.

1 Kings 15:4

Nevertheless, for David's sake the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, setting up his son after him, and establishing Jerusalem,

John 5:35

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

Psalm 144:10

who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the cruel sword.

Psalm 46:1

God is our refuge and strength, a very present[2] help in trouble.

2 Samuel 22:29

For you are my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens 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 clan has risen against your servant, and they say, 'Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed.' And so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal that is left and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth."

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah at Mizpah, "Please let me go and strike down Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life, so that all the Judeans who are gathered about you would be scattered, and the remnant of Judah would perish?"

2 Samuel 18:2

And David sent out the army, one third under the command of Joab, one third under the command of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and one third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the men, "I myself will also go out with you."