2 Samuel 23:4
2 The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
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.
5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
6 But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- is like the light of the morning at sunrise of a cloudless dawn, the glistening after the rain on the sprouting grass of the earth.’
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- 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.’
- ASV
- [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.
- DARBY
- And [he shall be] as the light or the morning, [like] the rising of the sun, A morning without clouds; [When] from the sunshine, after rain, The green grass springeth from the earth.
- BLB
- and as the light of the morning he rises, a morning sun, without clouds, by clear shining after the rain, the tender grass of the earth.’
- ÅB
- han skal være lik morgenens lys når solen går opp, en morgen uten skyer, når ved solskinn og ved regn gresset spirer fram av jorden.
- OTB
- Er som morgenlyset når solen stiger opp,
En daggry uten skyer,
Når det friske gresset spirer fra jorden,
Etter solskinn og regn.' - B1930
- han skal være lik morgenens lys når solen går op, en morgen uten skyer, når ved solskinn og ved regn gresset spirer frem av jorden.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Judges 5:31
So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
Read in contextPsalms 72:6
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
Read in contextPsalms 89:36
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me.
Read in contextHosea 6:5
Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
Read in contextMalachi 4:2
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
Read in contextIsaiah 60:3
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.
Read in contextLuke 1:78–79
Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
Read in contextJohn 1:7
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
Read in context