2 Samuel 23:4

New International Version

he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings grass from the earth.’

Cross References

Psalm 110:3

Your troops will be willing on your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, your young men will come to you like dew from the morning’s womb.

Psalm 72:6

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

Psalm 89:36

that his line will continue forever and his throne endure before me like the sun;

Proverbs 4:18

The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day.

Isaiah 18:4

This is what the Lord says to me: “I will remain quiet and will look on from my dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

Isaiah 4:2

In that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel.

Isaiah 60:1

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

Isaiah 60:3

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

Hosea 6:3

Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.”

Hosea 6:5

Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets, I killed you with the words of my mouth— then my judgments go forth like the sun.

Micah 5:7

The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for anyone or depend on man.

Malachi 4:2

But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.

John 1:7

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

Deuteronomy 32:2

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

Judges 5:31

“So may all your enemies perish, Lord! But may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had peace forty years.