Verse 17

But Abisai the sonne of Zaruia succoured him, & smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the seruauntes of Dauid sware vnto him, saying: Thou shalt go no more out with vs to battaile, that thou quenche not the light of Israel.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 11:36 : 36 And vnto his sonne will I geue one tribe, that Dauid my seruaut may haue a light alway before me in Hierusalem, the citie which I haue chosen me to put my name there.
  • 2 Sam 18:3 : 3 And the people aunswered, Thou shalt not go foorth: for if we flee away, they wil not care for vs, neither shal they regard vs, though halfe of vs were slaine: but thou art nowe worth ten thousande of vs, Wherfore it is better that thou succour vs out of the citie.
  • 2 Sam 20:6-9 : 6 And Dauid saide to Abisai: Now shal Seba the sonne of Bichri do vs more harme then did Absalom: Take thou therefore thy lordes seruauntes, and folowe after him, lest he get him walled cities, and escape vs. 7 And there went out after him Ioabs men, and the Cerethites, and the Phelethites, and all the mightyest men: And they departed out of Hierusalem, to folow after Seba the sonne of Bichri. 8 And when they were at ye great stone in Gibeon, Amasa went before them: And Ioabs garment that he had about him, was girde vnto him, & he had gyrded thereon a sword, which was ioyned fast to his loynes in a sheath, that as he went it fell sometime out. 9 And Ioab saide to Amasa: Art thou in health my brother? And Ioab toke Amasa by ye beard with the right hand, to kisse him. 10 But Amasa toke no heede to the sword that was in Ioabs hand: for therewith he smote him in the fyst rybbe & shed out his bowels to the grounde, and thrust at him no more, & he dyed: So Ioab and Abisai his brother folowed after Seba the sonne of Bichri.
  • Ps 132:17 : 17 I will make there the horne of Dauid to bud vp: I wyll ordayne a light for mine annoynted.
  • 1 Kgs 15:4 : 4 Neuerthelesse, for Dauids sake did the Lorde his God geue him a lyght in Hierusalem, that he set vp his sonne after him, and stablished Hierusalem:
  • Ps 46:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition, a song (to be song) of the children of Corach vpon Alamoth. The Lorde is our refuge & strength: a helpe very easyly founde in troubles.
  • 2 Sam 14:7 : 7 And beholde, the whole kindred is risen against thy handmayd, & they said: Delyuer hym that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the soule of his brother whom he slue, we will destroy the heyre also: And so they shall quenche my sparkle which is left, and shall not leaue to my husband neither name nor issue vpon the earth.
  • Ps 144:10 : 10 Who geueth victorie vnto kynges: who redeemeth Dauid his seruaunt from peryll of the sworde.
  • John 1:8-9 : 8 He was not that lyght: but was sent to beare witnesse of the lyght. 9 That lyght was the true lyght, which lyghteth euery man that commeth into the worlde.
  • John 5:35 : 35 He was a burnyng & a shynyng lyght, and ye would for a season haue reioyced in his lyght.
  • 2 Sam 22:19 : 19 When they had preuented me in the daye of my calamitie: the Lorde stayed me vp.
  • 2 Sam 22:29 : 29 For thou art my lyght, O Lorde: and the Lorde shall light my darkenesse.