2 Samuel 23:4

World English Bible (2000)

shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.'

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  • Judg 5:31 : 31 "So let all your enemies perish, Yahweh, but let those who love him be as the sun when it rises forth in its strength." Then the land had rest forty years.
  • Ps 72:6 : 6 He will come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
  • Ps 89:36 : 36 His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.
  • Prov 4:18 : 18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.
  • Hos 6:5 : 5 Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
  • Mic 5:7 : 7 The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, like dew from Yahweh, like showers on the grass, that don't wait for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
  • Luke 1:78-79 : 78 because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the dawn from on high will visit us, 79 to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace."
  • John 1:7 : 7 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
  • Deut 32:2 : 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.
  • Isa 4:2 : 2 In that day, Yahweh's branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.
  • Isa 60:1 : 1 "Arise, shine; for your light is come, and the glory of Yahweh is risen on you.
  • Isa 60:3 : 3 Nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
  • Isa 60:18-20 : 18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. 19 The sun shall be no more your light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light to you: but Yahweh will be to you an everlasting light, and your God your glory. 20 Your sun shall no more go down, neither shall your moon withdraw itself; for Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.
  • Hos 6:3 : 3 Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth."
  • Ps 110:3 : 3 Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array. Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.

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  • Ps 37:6
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    6 he will make your righteousness go forth as the light, and your justice as the noon day sun.

  • Hos 14:5-6
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    5 I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

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  • Job 11:17
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    17 Life shall be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it shall be as the morning.

  • 2 Sam 23:3
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    3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, 'One who rules over men righteously, who rules in the fear of God,

  • Isa 18:4
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    4 For Yahweh said to me, "I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."

  • Mic 5:4
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    4 He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

  • Hos 6:3-4
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  • Ps 89:36-37
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    36 His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.

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    5 Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

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    8 Then your light shall break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard.

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    18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

  • Isa 30:23
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    23 He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

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    2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

  • Isa 44:4
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    4 and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

  • Jer 17:8
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    1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.

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    27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

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    7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the sun.

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    6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.