2 Samuel 5:23
When David inquired of the LORD, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees.
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Before · 2 Samuel 5:21–22
21They left their images there, and David and his men took them away. 22The Philistines came up yet again and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
23When David inquired of the LORD, he said, “You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them in front of the mulberry trees.
After · 2 Samuel 5:24–25
24When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then stir yourself up; for then the LORD has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.” 25David did so, as the LORD commanded him, and struck the Philistines all the way from Geba to Gezer.