2 Samuel 21:17

Tree of Life Version

But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “You must not go out with us to battle anymore. You must not quench the lamp of Israel!”

Cross References

1 Kings 11:36

To his son I will give one tribe so that My servant David may have a lamp every day before Me in Jerusalem, the city that I chose for Myself to put My Name there.

2 Samuel 18:3

But the troops said, “You must not go out! For if we were to flee, they would not care about us, even if half of us die, they still wouldn’t care about us—but you are worth 10,000 of us. Therefore now, it is better that you be ready to support us from the city.”

Psalm 132:17

There will I make a horn spring up for David, I have set up a lamp for My anointed.

1 Kings 15:4

Nevertheless, for David’s sake, Adonai his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, raising up his son after him and establishing Jerusalem.

John 5:35

He was the lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice for a while in his light.

Psalm 144:10

who gives salvation to kings, who rescues Your servant David from the evil sword.

Psalm 46:1

For the music director, of the sons of Korah, according to Alamoth, a song.

2 Samuel 22:29

For You are my lamp, Adonai. Adonai shines in my darkness.

2 Samuel 22:19

They came against me in the day of my calamity, but Adonai was my support.

2 Samuel 14:7

Now behold, the whole clan has risen against your handmaid and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother so we may put him to death, for the life of his brother whom he slew.’ So they will also destroy the heir and extinguish my one remaining ember, leaving to my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth!”

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah, saying, “Let me go now, and I will slay Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one will know it. Why should he take your life, so that all the Jews that are gathered to you would be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?’

2 Samuel 18:2

Then David sent out the troops, one third under the command of Joab, one third under the command of Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and one third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the troops, “I must certainly go out with you also.”