2 Samuel 23:4 - Tree of Life Version

⁴ he is like the light of the morning when the sun rises, a cloudless morning of glistening as grass springs from the earth.’

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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 be a freewill offering in a day of your power. In holy splendors, from dawn’s womb, yours is the dew of your youth.

Psalm 72:6

May he be like rain falling on a mown field, like showers watering the ground.

Psalm 89:36

Once for all I have sworn by My holiness —surely I will not lie to David—

Proverbs 4:18

The path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until the full day.

Isaiah 18:4

For so Adonai has said to me: “I will remain quiet, and look from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in harvest heat.”

Isaiah 4:2

In that day the Branch of Adonai will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land excellent and appealing for Israel’s survivors.

Isaiah 60:1

Arise, shine, for your light has come! The glory of Adonai has risen on you.

Isaiah 60:3

Nations will come to your light, kings to the brilliance of your rising.

Hosea 6:3

So let us know, let us strive to know Adonai. Like dawn His going forth is certain. He will come to us like the rain, like the latter rain watering the earth.

Hosea 6:5

Therefore I cut them down by the prophets. I slew them by the words of My mouth. Now the judgments pronounced against you: light will go forth.

Micah 5:7

For the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the forest beasts, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, who, if he passed through, would trample and tear to pieces, and there would be no deliverer.

John 1:7

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

Deuteronomy 32:2

May my teaching trickle like rain, my speech distill like dew— like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

Judges 5:31

So let all Your enemies perish, Adonai! But may those who love Him be like the rising of the sun in its might.” Then the land had peace for 40 years.