Matthew 4:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

Cross References

Job 10:22

A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

Job 3:5

Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

Job 34:22

There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

Psalm 44:19

Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

Isaiah 9:1

In earlier times he made the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali of small value, but after that he gave it glory, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

Isaiah 9:2

The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

Amos 5:8

Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;

Micah 7:8

Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me.

Luke 2:32

A light of revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.