2 Samuel 5:23 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²³ And they laid the ark of God upon a new cart: and took it out of the house of Abinadab, who was in Gabaa: and Oza, and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ When David inquired of the Lord, He said, You shall not go up, but go around behind them and come upon them over opposite the mulberry (or balsam) trees.

American Standard Version (1901)

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 mulberry-trees.

Common English Bible

²³ When David asked the LORD, God replied, “Don’t attack them directly. Circle around behind them and come at them from in front of the balsam trees.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Then David consulted the Lord, "Shall I ascend against the Philistines, and will you deliver them into my hands?" And he responded: "You shall not ascend against them; instead, circle behind their back. And you shall come to them from the side opposite the balsam trees.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And David consulted the Lord: Shall I go up against the Philistines, and wilt thou deliver them into my hands? He answered: Go not up against them, but fetch a compass behind them; and thou shalt come upon them over against the pear-trees.

2 Samuel 5:23 Cross References

2 Samuel 2:1

And now the Lord surely will render you mercy and truth, and I also will, requite you for this good turn, because you have done this thing.

2 Samuel 5:19

4 And when thou shalt hear the sound of one going in the tops of the pear trees, then shalt thou join battle: for then will the Lord go out before thy face to strike the army of the Philistines.

1 Chronicles 14:14

Then David said: No one ought to carry the ark of God, but the Levites, whom the Lord hath chosen to carry it, and to minister unto himself for ever.

Joshua 8:2

And whilst we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall arise out of the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord your God will deliver it into our hands.

Joshua 8:7

2 And he had chosen five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the same city:

1 Samuel 22:15

0 But one of the sons of Achimelech the son of Achitob, whose name was Abiathar, escaped, and fled to David,

1 Samuel 23:2

And it was told Saul that David was come to Ceila: and Saul said: The Lord hath delivered him into my hands, and he is shut up, being come into a city, that hath gates and bars.