1 Chronicles 14:16

¹⁴ So David again inquired of God, who answered him, “Do not march up after them, but circle around them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.

¹⁵ As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, move out to battle, because this will mean that God has marched out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”

So David did as God had commanded him, and they struck down the army of the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.

¹⁷ And David’s fame went out into every land, and the LORD caused all nations to fear him.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: So David did as God had commanded him, and they struck down the army of the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.
KJV: David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.
WEB: David did as God commanded him; and they attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
ASV: And David did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
DARBY: And David did as God commanded him; and they smote the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
BLB: And David did as God had commanded him, and they drove back the camp of the Philistines from Gibeon to Gezer.

ÅB: David gjorde som Gud hadde befalt ham, og de slo filistrenes hær og forfulgte dem fra Gibeon og like til Geser.
OTB: David gjorde akkurat som Gud hadde befalt ham,
og de slo filisternes hær fra Gibeon helt til Gezer.
B1930: David gjorde som Gud hadde befalt ham, og de slo filistrenes hær og forfulgte dem fra Gibeon og like til Geser.

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John 13:17
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
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John 15:14
You are My friends if you do what I command you.
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Genesis 6:22
So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
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Exodus 39:42–43
The Israelites had done all the work just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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Joshua 16:10
But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.
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2 Samuel 5:25
So David did as the LORD had commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.
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John 2:5
His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”
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1 Chronicles 6:67
They were given Shechem (a city of refuge) with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer,
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