2 Samuel 21:17

World Messianic Bible British Edition

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “Don’t go out with us to battle any more, so that you don’t quench the lamp of Israel.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:7

Behold, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they say, ‘Deliver him who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he killed, and so destroy the heir also.’ Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and would leave to my husband neither name nor remainder on the surface of the earth.”

2 Samuel 18:2

David sent the people out, a third part 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. The king said to the people, “I will also surely go out with you myself.”

2 Samuel 18:3

But the people said, “You shall not go out, for if we flee away, they will not care for us, neither if half of us die, will they care for us. But you are worth ten thousand of us. Therefore now it is better that you are ready to help us out of the city.”

2 Samuel 22:19

They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.

2 Samuel 22:29

For you are my lamp, LORD. The LORD will light up my darkness.

1 Kings 11:36

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

1 Kings 15:4

Nevertheless for David’s sake, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;

Psalm 132:17

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

Psalm 144:10

You are he who gives salvation to kings, who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.

Psalm 46:1

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

Jeremiah 40:15

Then Yochanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, “Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man will know it. Why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?”

John 5:35

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