2 Samuel 5 - Revised Standard Version Old Tradition 1952(RSV-C)

1 my enemies before me, like a bursting flood.” Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.

21And the Philistines left their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.

22 1 Chron 14.13-16. And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread out in the valley of Rephaim.

23And when David inquired of the Lord, he said, “You shall not go up; go around to their rear, and come upon them opposite the balsam trees.

24And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then bestir yourself; for then the Lord has gone out before you to smite the army of the Philistines.”

25And David did as the Lord commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba to Gezer.