2 Samuel 23:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ is like the light of morning, like the sun rising on a cloudless morning, gleaming from the rain on the grassy land.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, Even a morning without clouds; As the tender grass springing out of the earth By clear shining after rain.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ He dawns on them like the morning light when the sun rises on a cloudless morning, when the tender grass springs out of the earth through clear shining after rain.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ He shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, A morning without clouds, When the tender grass springeth out of the earth, Through clear shining after rain.

Common English Bible

⁴ is like the light of sunrise on a morning with no clouds, like the bright gleam after the rain that brings grass from the ground.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ like the first light of the morning as the sun is rising, when a morning without clouds glows red, and like plants springing forth from the earth after a rainfall.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ As the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, shineth in the morning without clouds; and as the grass springeth out of the earth by rain.

2 Samuel 23:4 Cross References

Psalm 110:3

Your people will offer themselves willingly on the day you lead your forces on the holy mountains. From the womb of the morning, like dew, your youth will come to you.

Psalm 72:6

May he be like rain that falls on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth.

Psalm 89:36

His line shall continue forever, and his throne endure before me like the sun.

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

Isaiah 18:4

For thus the Lord said to me: “I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

Isaiah 4:2

On that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel.

Isaiah 60:1

Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

Isaiah 60:3

Nations shall come to your light and kings to the brightness of your dawn.

Hosea 6:3

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the showers, like the spring rains that water the earth.”

Hosea 6:5

Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have killed them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.

Micah 5:7

Then the remnant of Jacob, surrounded by many peoples, shall be like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which do not depend upon people or wait for any mortal.

Malachi 4:2

But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

John 1:7

He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him.

Deuteronomy 32:2

May my teaching drop like the rain, my speech condense like the dew, like gentle rain on grass, like showers on new growth.

Judges 5:31

So perish all your enemies, O Lord! But may your friends be like the sun as it rises in its might.” And the land had rest forty years.