Once again the Philistines made a raid in the valley.
Then the prophet approached the king of Israel and said to him, “Come, strengthen yourself, and consider well what you have to do, for in the spring the king of Aram will come up against you.”
They abandoned their gods there, and at David’s command they were burned.
When David again inquired of God, God said to him, “You shall not go up after them; go around and come upon them opposite the balsam trees.
Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim.