2 Samuel 5:18-25 ▼

18 and the Philistines have come, and are spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.

19 And David asks of YHWH, saying, “Do I go up to the Philistines? Do You give them into my hand?” And YHWH says to David, “Go up, for I certainly give the Philistines into your hand.”

20 And David comes to Ba‘al-Perazim, and David strikes them there, and says, “YHWH has broken forth [on] my enemies before me, as the breaking forth of waters”; therefore he has called the name of that place Ba‘al-Perazim.

21 And they forsake their idols there, and David and his men lift them up.

22 And the Philistines add again to come up, and are spread out in the Valley of Rephaim,

23 and David asks of YHWH, and He says, “You do not go up, turn around to their rear, and you have come to them from the front [[or in front]] of the mulberries,

24 and it comes to pass, in your hearing the sound of a stepping in the tops of the mulberries, then you move sharply, for then YHWH has gone out before you to strike in the camp of the Philistines.”

25 And David does so, as YHWH commanded him, and strikes the Philistines from Geba to your coming to Gazer.