2 Samuel 14:7

Overview - 2 Samuel 14
Joab, suborning a widow of Tekoah by a parable to incline the king's heart to fetch home Absalom, brings him to Jerusalem.
25 Absalom's beauty, hair, and children.
28 After two years, Absalom is brought into the king's presence by Joab.
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2 Samuel 14:7  (King James Version)
And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
 


the whole
Genesis 4:14 ; Numbers 35:19 ; Deuteronomy 19:12

so they
Genesis 27:45 ; Deuteronomy 25:6

quench
12:17

upon the earth
Hebrew upon the face of the earth.