King James Version (KJV)
2 Samuel 5:23
“And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; [but] fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.”
Verse in context — 2 Samuel 5
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And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
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And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
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And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; [but] fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
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And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
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And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.
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David’s reign as king, his triumphs and failures, and God’s covenant with him.
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