Lectionary Calendar
Friday, August 8th, 2025
the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
Attention!
Take your personal ministry to the Next Level by helping StudyLight build churches and supporting pastors in Uganda.
Click here to join the effort!

Read the Bible

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

2 Samuel 5:24

Dan bila engkau mendengar bunyi derap langkah di puncak pohon-pohon kertau itu, maka haruslah engkau bertindak cepat, sebab pada waktu itu TUHAN telah keluar berperang di depanmu untuk memukul kalah tentara orang Filistin."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Mulberry Tree;   Philistines;   Prayer;   War;   Thompson Chain Reference - Battle of Life;   Battles, God;   Protector, Divine;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Trees;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mulberry-Tree;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Philistia, philistines;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Mulberry;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahijah;   Mulberry Trees;   Philistia;   Saul;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Balsam;   Oracles;   Philistines, the;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Angel;   David;   Israel;   Meonenim, Oak of;   Samuel, Books of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Mulberry Tree;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mulberry tree;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Mulberry trees;   Rephaim;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mulbury Trees;   Philis'tines;   Reph'a-Im, the Valley of,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Mulberry Tree;   Urim and Thummim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Augurs' Oak;   Baca;   Balsam;   Names, Proper;   Samuel, Books of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Baca;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Augury;   David;   Divination;   Groves and Sacred Trees;   Mulberry;   Theocracy;   Tree-Worship;   Witchcraft;  

Devotionals:

- Faith's Checkbook - Devotion for May 3;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dan bila engkau mendengar bunyi derap langkah di puncak pohon-pohon kertau itu, maka haruslah engkau bertindak cepat, sebab pada waktu itu TUHAN telah keluar berperang di depanmu untuk memukul kalah tentara orang Filistin."
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka akan jadi kelak, apabila kedengaranlah kepadamu bunyi orang berjalan di atas mercu pohon-pohon kertau itu, hendaklah engkau bersegera-segera, karena pada masa itu Tuhan keluar berjalan di hadapanmu hendak mengalahkan balatentara orang Filistin.

Contextual Overview

17 But when the Philistines hearde that they had annoynted Dauid king ouer Israel, they came all vp to seke Dauid: And assoone as Dauid hearde of it, he gat him to an holde. 18 And when the Philistines came, they spread them selues in the valley of Raphaim. 19 And Dauid asked counsel of the Lord, saying: Shall I go vp to the Philistines? Wilt thou deliuer them into my handes? And the Lorde aunswered vnto Dauid: Go vp, for I will doubtlesse deliuer the Philistines into thy handes. 20 And Dauid came to Baal Perazim, and smote them there, and sayde: The Lorde hath deuided myne enemies asunder before me, as waters be deuided asunder: And therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim. 21 And there they left their images, and Dauid and his men burnt them. 22 And the Philistines came yet againe, and layde them selues in the valley of Rephaim. 23 And when Dauid asked counsel of the Lorde, he aunswered, Thou shalt not go vp: but compasse them on the backsyde, and come vpon them ouer against the Mulbery trees. 24 And when thou hearest the noyse of a thing goyng in the toppe of the Mulbery trees, then remoue: for then shall the Lorde go out before thee, to smyte the hoast of the Philistines. 25 And Dauid did as the Lorde had commaunded him: and smote the Philistines from Geba, vntill thou come to Gazer.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sound: 2 Kings 7:6

thou shalt bestir: Judges 4:14, Judges 7:15, 1 Samuel 14:9-12, 1 Chronicles 14:15, Philippians 2:11, Philippians 2:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:14 - thereby Exodus 11:4 - will I go Deuteronomy 33:7 - let his hands Joshua 6:10 - until the day 1 Samuel 14:12 - Come up after me 1 Samuel 14:15 - very great trembling 2 Kings 13:17 - The arrow Ezekiel 3:13 - the noise

Cross-References

Genesis 5:5
And all the dayes that Adam lyued were nine hundreth and thirtie yeres, and he dyed.
Genesis 5:6
Seth lyued an hundreth & fyue yeres, and begat Enos.
Genesis 5:22
And Henoch walked with God after he begate Methuselah three hundreth yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.
Genesis 37:30
And went agayne vnto his brethren, saying: the lad is not [yonder] wo is me, whyther shall I go?
Genesis 42:36
And Iacob theyr father sayde vnto them: Me haue ye robbed of my children, Ioseph is away, and Simeon is away, & ye will take Beniamin away: all these thinges are agaynst me.
2 Kings 2:1
And it chaunced, that whe the Lord would take vp Elias into heauen by a whorle wind, Elias went with Elisa from Gilgal.
Jeremiah 31:15
Thus saith the Lorde, The voyce of heauinesse, weepyng, and lamentation was hearde on hye, euen of Rachel mournyng for her children, and woulde not be comforted because they were not.
Matthew 2:18
In Rama was there a voyce hearde, lamentation, wepyng, & great mournyng, Rachel weping [for] her children, and woulde not be comforted, because they were not.
Luke 23:43
And Iesus sayde vnto hym: Ueryly I say vnto thee, to day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
1 John 1:7
But and yf we walke in light, euen as he is in lyght, then haue we felowship one with another, and the blood of Iesus Christ his sonne clenseth vs from all sinne.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees,.... Of a going of the wind on the tops of these trees, making a rustling upon them, and that in such a manner as to resemble the going of men, or march of armies, as if they were moving in the air over the tops of the mulberry trees; which Jarchi and R. Isaiah interpret of angels being sent of God, and moving at that time to help David, and destroy the Philistines; so the Targum on

1 Chronicles 14:15. These trees being in Judea account for silk there, Ezekiel 16:10; though some think time was not known so early; others suppose it was, and to be the Hebrew byssus mentioned by Pausanias a, as being of a yellow colour:

that then thou shall bestir thyself; or move towards the camp of the Philistines, and fall upon them in the rear, who, by reason of the sound in the trees, would not hear the motion of the Israelites; or, if they heard it, would take it to be no other than the motion of the trees they heard, both sounds being confounded together; or they would take the sound they heard for the motion of the enemy in the front, and give way, and so fall into the hands of the Israelites in their rear, which must throw them into the utmost confusion and consternation:

for then shall the Lord go out before thee to smite the host of the Philistines: by an angel or angels; so the Targum,

"for then shall go forth the angel of the Lord, to make thee prosperous to slay in the camp of the Philistines;''

that being the precise time for the salvation of Israel, and the destruction of the Philistines, and the token of it.

a Eliac. sive, l. 5. p. 294.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 5:24. When thou hearest the sound of a going — If there had not been an evident supernatural interference, David might have thought that the sleight or ruse de guerre which he had used was the cause of his victory. By the going in the tops of the mulberry trees probably only a rustling among the leaves is intended. The Targum says, a noise; the Arabic has it, the noise of horses' hoofs.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile