2 Samuel 23:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ “Who rules in the fear of Elohim, Is like the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, Tender grass from the earth From sunshine, from rain.’

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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.

2 Samuel 23:4 Cross References

Psalm 110:3

Your people volunteer in the day of Your might, In the splendours of set-apartness! From the womb, from the morning, You have the dew of Your youth!

Psalm 72:6

Let Him come down like rain upon the mown grass, Like showers, watering the earth.

Psalm 89:36

“His seed shall be forever, And his throne as the sun before Me;

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.

Isaiah 18:4

For thus יהוה  said to me, “I am still, and I watch in My dwelling place like dazzling heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

Isaiah 4:2

In that day the Branch of יהוה  shall be splendid and esteemed. And the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for the escaped ones of Yisra’ĕ

Isaiah 60:1

“Arise, shine, for your light has come! And the esteem of יהוה  has risen upon you.

Isaiah 60:3

“And the gentiles shall come to your light, and sovereigns to the brightness of your rising.

Hosea 6:3

‘So let us know, let us pursue to know יהוה. His going forth is as certain as the morning. And He comes to us like the rain, like the latter rain watering the earth.’

Hosea 6:5

“Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of My mouth. And my right-rulings break forth as the light.

Micah 5:7

And the remnant of Yaʽ

Malachi 4:2

“But to you who fear My Name the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings. And you shall go out and leap for joy like calves from the stall.

John 1:7

This one came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all might believe through him.

Deuteronomy 32:2

“Let my instruction fall as rain, My speech drop down as dew, As fine rain on the tender plants, And as showers on the grass.

Judges 5:31

“So do all Your enemies perish, O יהוה! But let those who love Him be like the sun rising in its might!” And the land had rest forty years.