2 Samuel 23:3–4

3 The God of Israel spoke,

the Rockp of Israel said to me:

‘When one rules over people in righteousness,q

when he rules in the fearr of God,s

4 he is like the lightt of morningu at sunrisev

on a cloudless morning,

like the brightness after rainw

that brings grass from the earth.’

p	Dt 32:4 1 Sa 2:2 Ps 18:31
q	Ps 72:2
r	Ge 42:18
s	Is 11:1–5
t	Jn 1:5
u	Ps 119:147 Ps 130:6 Pr 4:18
v	Jdg 5:31 Mt 13:43
w	Dt 32:2