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

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

²² And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

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.

²⁴ And it shall be, when thou hearest the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry-trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself; for then is Jehovah gone out before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.

²⁵ And David did so, as Jehovah commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gezer.

²² And the prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.