Verse 4
2 Samuel 23:4
New King James Version
4
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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וּ/כְ/א֥וֹר בֹּ֖קֶר יִזְרַח שָׁ֑מֶשׁ בֹּ֚קֶר לֹ֣א עָב֔וֹת מִ/נֹּ֥גַהּ מִ/מָּטָ֖ר דֶּ֥שֶׁא מֵ/אָֽרֶץ
English Translation
And like the morning light, the sun will rise; in the morning, it will not be heavy from the brightness of the dew of the grass from the earth.
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Chapter 23 Context
1
Now these
be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man
who was raised up on...
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2
The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word
was in my tongue.
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3
The God (Elohim) of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men
must be jus...
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4
And
he shall be as the light of the morning,
when
the sun riseth,
even a morning without clouds;
as...
5
Although my house
be not so with God (Elohim); yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ord...
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6
But
the sons of Belial
shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with...
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7
But the man
that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall...
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8
These
be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief amon...
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9
And after him
was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite,
one of the three mighty men with David, when...
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10
He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and...
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11
And after him
was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together i...
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12
But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the LORD wro...
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13
And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adul...
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14
And David
was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines
was then
in Bethlehem.
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15
And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, w...
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16
And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well o...
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17
And he said, Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this:
is not this the blood of the men that...
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18
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three. And he lifted up his sp...
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19
Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto th...
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20
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he sl...
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21
And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to...
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22
These
things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men.
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23
He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the
first three. And David set him ov...
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24
Asahel the brother of Joab
was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
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25
Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,
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26
Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
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27
Abiezer the Anethothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,
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28
Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
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29
Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Ben...
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30
Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,
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31
Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,
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32
Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,
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33
Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Hararite,
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Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
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35
Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,
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36
Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,
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37
Zelek the Ammonite, Nahari the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah,
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38
Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,
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39
Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
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