2 Samuel 23:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.

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  • Judg 5:31 : 31 So may destruction come on all your haters, O Lord; but let your lovers be like the sun going out in his strength. And for forty years the land had peace.
  • Ps 72:6 : 6 May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.
  • Ps 89:36 : 36 His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.
  • Hos 6:5 : 5 So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;
  • Mic 5:7 : 7 And the rest of Jacob will be among the nations, in the middle of the mass of peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the woods, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: if he goes through, they will be crushed under foot and pulled to bits, and there will be no saviour.
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.
  • Luke 1:78-79 : 78 Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us, 79 To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.
  • John 1:7 : 7 He came for witness, to give witness about the light, so that all men might have faith through him.
  • Deut 32:2 : 2 My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:
  • Isa 4:2 : 2 In that day will the young growth of the Lord be beautiful in glory, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride of those who are still living in Israel.
  • Isa 60:1 : 1 Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.
  • Isa 60:3 : 3 And nations will come to your light, and kings to your bright dawn.
  • Isa 60:18-20 : 18 Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise. 19 The sun will not be your light by day, and the moon will no longer be bright for you by night: but the Lord will be to you an eternal light, and your God your glory. 20 Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
  • Ps 110:3 : 3 Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.

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  • Ps 72:6-7
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    6 May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

    7 In his days may the upright do well, living in peace as long as there is a moon in heaven.

  • Ps 37:6
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    6 And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.

  • Hos 14:5-6
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    5 I will put right their errors; freely will my love be given to them, for my wrath is turned away from him.

    6 I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.

  • Job 11:17
    74%

    17 And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.

  • 2 Sam 23:3
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    3 The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,

  • Isa 18:4
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    4 For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.

  • Mic 5:4
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    4 And this will be our peace: when the Assyrian comes into our country and his feet are in our land, then we will put up against him seven keepers of the flocks and eight chiefs among men.

  • Hos 6:3-4
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    3 And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

    4 O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.

  • Ps 89:36-37
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    36 His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.

    37 It will be fixed for ever like the moon; and the witness in heaven is true. (Selah.)

  • Ps 112:4
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    4 For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

  • Jer 23:5
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    5 See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land.

  • Isa 58:8
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    8 Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.

  • Prov 4:18
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    18 But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

  • Isa 30:23
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    23 And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

  • Ps 1:3
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    3 He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

  • Deut 32:2
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    2 My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:

  • Isa 44:4
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    4 And they will come up like grass in a well-watered field, like water-plants by the streams.

  • Jer 17:8
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    8 For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.

  • 2 Sam 23:5
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    5 For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?

  • Zech 10:1
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    1 Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.

  • Job 8:16
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    16 He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.

  • Isa 53:2
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    2 For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;

  • Eccl 12:2
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    2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

  • Isa 42:4
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    4 His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.

  • Prov 16:15
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    15 In the light of the king's face there is life; and his approval is like a cloud of spring rain.

  • Mal 4:2
    70%

    2 But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

  • Job 37:21
    69%

    21 And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

  • Ps 85:11
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    11 Faith comes up from the earth like a plant; righteousness is looking down from heaven.

  • Ps 72:16
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    16 May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.

  • Ps 19:5
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    5 Who is like a newly married man coming from his bride-tent, and is glad like a strong runner starting on his way.

  • Isa 32:1-2
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    69%

    1 See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.

    2 And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

  • Zech 14:7
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    7 And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light.

  • Ps 110:3
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    3 Your people give themselves gladly in the day of your power; like the dew of the morning on the holy mountains is the army of your young men.

  • Job 25:3
    69%

    3 Is it possible for his armies to be numbered? and on whom is not his light shining?

  • Isa 22:23
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    23 And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's family.

  • Isa 30:26
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    26 And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times greater, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord puts oil on the wounds of his people, and makes them well from the blows they have undergone.

  • Hab 3:4
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    4 He was shining like the light; he had rays coming out from his hand: there his power was kept secret.

  • Ps 84:11
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    11 The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

  • Job 38:27
    69%

    27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

  • Eccl 11:7
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    7 Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

  • Ps 133:3
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    3 Like the dew of Hermon, which comes down on the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord gave orders for the blessing, even life for ever.

  • Ps 85:13
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    13 Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.

  • Joel 2:23
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    23 Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.

  • Jer 33:15
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    15 In those days and at that time, I will let a Branch of righteousness come up for David; and he will be a judge in righteousness in the land.

  • Jer 17:6
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    6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.