Scripture · Old Testament
2 Samuel 5:23
2 Samuel 5:23 is verse 23 of 2 Samuel chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So David inquired of the LORD, who answered, “Do not march straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.
Or aspen trees or poplar trees; also in verse 24
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
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.
Read in context
2 Samuel 5:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible
21 There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.
22 Once again the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
23 So David inquired of the LORD, who answered, “Do not march straight up, but circle around behind them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.
24 As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, move quickly, because this will mean that the LORD has marched out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”
25 So David did as the LORD had commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.
Read all of 2 Samuel 5Hebrew words
Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Study 2 Samuel 5:23
Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Joshua 8:2And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”
Joshua 8:7you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
1 Chronicles 14:14So David again inquired of God, who answered him, “Do not march up after them, but circle around them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.
Matthew 9:29Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.”
Matthew 9:30And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one finds out about this!”
Matthew 8:23When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him.
Matthew 8:24Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves; but Jesus was sleeping.
Matthew 8:25The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”
John 9:6When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.
John 9:7Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.