Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
That thou quench not the light of Israel - David is here considered as the lamp by which all Israel was guided, and without whom all the nation must be involved in darkness. The lamp is the emblem of direction and support. Light is used in this sense by Homer: -
ͅ , ' ̔
, ̔ ̔ ͅ.
Iliad, lib. xviii. ver. 102.
\ri720 "I have neither been a Light to Patroclus nor to his companions, who have been slain by the noble Hector."
Other Adam Clarke entries containing 2 Samuel 21:17:
2 Samuel 14:7
Psalms 18:17
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