2 Samuel 5:23

World English Bible (2000)

When David inquired of Yahweh, he said, "You shall not go up. Circle around behind them, and attack them over against the mulberry trees.

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  • Josh 8:2 : 2 You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except its spoil and its livestock, you shall take for a plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it."
  • Josh 8:7 : 7 and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.
  • 1 Chr 14:14 : 14 David inquired again of God; and God said to him, "You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them over against the mulberry trees.
  • Matt 8:23-25 : 23 When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him. 24 Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep. 25 They came to him, and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!"
  • Matt 9:29-30 : 29 Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it done to you." 30 Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly commanded them, saying, "See that no one knows about this."
  • John 9:6-7 : 6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud, 7 and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

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  • 1 Chr 14:13-16
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    92%

    13 The Philistines yet again made a raid in the valley.

    14 David inquired again of God; and God said to him, "You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them over against the mulberry trees.

    15 It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines."

    16 David did as God commanded him: and they struck the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.

  • 2 Sam 5:24-25
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    88%

    24 It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then you shall stir yourself up; for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines."

    25 David did so, as Yahweh commanded him, and struck the Philistines from Geba until you come to Gezer.

  • 2 Sam 5:17-20
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    80%

    17 When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the stronghold.

    18 Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

    19 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?" Yahweh said to David, "Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand."

    20 David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there; and he said, "Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters." Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

  • 1 Sam 23:1-5
    5 verses
    79%

    1 David was told, "Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah, and are robbing the threshing floors."

    2 Therefore David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go and strike these Philistines?" Yahweh said to David, "Go strike the Philistines, and save Keilah."

    3 David's men said to him, "Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?"

    4 Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, "Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand."

    5 David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their livestock, and killed them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

  • 1 Chr 14:8-10
    3 verses
    77%

    8 When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David: and David heard of it, and went out against them.

    9 Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.

    10 David inquired of God, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?" Yahweh said to him, "Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand."

  • 1 Sam 30:8
    72%

    8 David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them?" He answered him, "Pursue; for you shall surely overtake them, and shall without fail recover all."

  • 1 Sam 22:5
    71%

    5 The prophet Gad said to David, "Don't stay in the stronghold. Depart, and go into the land of Judah." Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.

  • 1 Chr 21:30
    71%

    30 But David couldn't go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.

  • 2 Sam 5:22
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    22 The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 1 Sam 30:23
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    23 Then David said, "You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

  • 2 Sam 2:1
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    1 It happened after this, that David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?" Yahweh said to him, "Go up." David said, "Where shall I go up?" He said, "To Hebron."

  • 1 Sam 23:15
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    15 David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

  • 1 Sam 17:20
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    20 David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the place of the wagons, as the army which was going forth to the fight shouted for the battle.

  • 1 Sam 30:15
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    15 David said to him, "Will you bring me down to this troop?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop."

  • 2 Sam 24:19
    70%

    19 David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.

  • 1 Chr 21:18-19
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    70%

    18 Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahweh.

  • 1 Sam 23:23
    69%

    23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah."

  • 1 Sam 28:1
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    1 It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, "Know assuredly that you shall go out with me in the army, you and your men."

  • 1 Sam 17:45
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    45 Then David said to the Philistine, "You come to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

  • 1 Sam 17:48
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    48 It happened, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

  • 1 Sam 17:41
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    41 The Philistine came on and drew near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him.

  • 1 Sam 26:13
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    13 Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them;

  • 1 Sam 26:10
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    10 David said, "As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

  • 1 Sam 23:10
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    10 Then David said, "O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

  • 1 Sam 23:12
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    12 Then David said, "Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?" Yahweh said, "They will deliver you up."

  • 1 Sam 30:21
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    21 David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.

  • 2 Chr 20:16
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    16 Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they are coming up by the ascent of Ziz. You shall find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

  • 1 Sam 24:9
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    9 David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeks your hurt?'

  • 1 Sam 23:26
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  • 1 Sam 22:3
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    3 David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me."

  • 2 Sam 23:13
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    13 Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

  • 1 Sam 26:5
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    5 David arose, and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his army: and Saul lay within the place of the wagons, and the people were encamped around him.

  • 1 Sam 17:37
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  • 1 Sam 29:2
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    2 The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rear with Achish.

  • 1 Sam 29:7
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    7 Therefore now return, and go in peace, that you not displease the lords of the Philistines."

  • 1 Sam 14:37
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    37 Saul asked counsel of God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?" But he didn't answer him that day.