Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Samuel 14:7
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7. they shall quench my coal which is left —The life of man is compared in Scripture to a light. To quench the light of Israel ( :- ) is to destroy the king's life; to ordain a lamp for any one ( Psalms 132:17 ) is to grant him posterity; to quench a coal signifies here the extinction of this woman's only remaining hope that the name and family of her husband would be preserved. The figure is a beautiful one; a coal live, but lying under a heap of embers—all that she had to rekindle her fire—to light her lamp in Israel. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-8" class="com-number"
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source-manifest/jfb— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)- evidence_grade: T_theological