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23 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 [a]mulberry-trees. 24 And 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. 25 And David did so, as Jehovah commanded him, and smote the Philistines from [b]Geba until thou come to Gezer.

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  1. 2 Samuel 5:23 Or, balsam-trees
  2. 2 Samuel 5:25 In 1 Chr. 14:16, Gibeon.