light. lamp. Compare the "furnace" of 1 Kings 8:51, and see note on Genesis 15:17. Compare 2 Kings 8:19; Psalms 18:28; Jeremiah 25:10, implying the continued existence of the Divine purpose.
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1 Kings 11:36
36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lighte alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.