Sinai2 Samuel 5:23
American Standard Version
And when David inquired of Jehovah, he said, Thou shalt not go up: make a circuit behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry-trees.
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2 Samuel 5:23 in other translations
When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees.
2 Samuel 5:23 in context
- 21And they left their images there; and David and his men took them away.
- 22And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
- 23And when David inquired of Jehovah, he said, Thou shalt not go up: make a circuit behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry-trees.
- 24And it shall be, when thou hearest the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry-trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself; for then is Jehovah gone out before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.
- 25And David did so, as Jehovah commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gezer.