Teks -- 2 Samuel 5:23 (NET)

5:23 So David asked the Lord what he should do. This time the Lord said to him, “Don’t march straight up. Instead, circle around behind them and come against them opposite the trees.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: 2Sa 5:23 - Go up

Directly against them, as the following words explain it.

Wesley: 2Sa 5:23 - Behind

Where they least expect thee; God's purposes and promises do not exclude men's endeavours.

Clarke: 2Sa 5:23 - Fetch a compass behind them

Fetch a compass behind them - When they may be had, God will not work without using human means. By this he taught David caution, prudence, and dependence on the Divine strength.

TSK: 2Sa 5:23 - inquired // fetch // the mulberry trees

inquired : 2Sa 5:19

fetch : Jos 8:2, Jos 8:7; 1Ch 14:14; Mat 9:29, Mat 9:30, Mat 8:23-25; Joh 9:6, Joh 9:7

the mulberry trees : The word bechaim , rendered mulberry trees, is rendered by Aquila, απιων , pear-trees, as the LXX also render in 1Ch 14:14, 1Ch 14:15; and so the Vulgate in both places has pyrorum . The Rabbins, however, believe bacha signifies the mulberry-tree; with whom Ursinus agrees. It more probably denotes a large shrub which the Arabs still call baca , from its distilling an odoriferous gum, from bachah to distil, as tears. Of this opinion is Celsius, who quotes a passage from Abulfadi, who describes it as a balsam shrub, having longish leaves, and bearing a large fruit with an acrid taste. M. Forskal mentions a tree by the name of beca , with leaves rather ovated, smooth, entirecaps1 . icaps0 ts berries are poisonous to the sheep.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: 2Sa 5:23 - Thou shalt not go up // Over against the mulberry trees

Thou shalt not go up to wit, directly against them, as the following words explain it.

Over against the mulberry trees where they least expect thee. God’ s purposes and promises do not exclude men’ s just endeavours, but require them.

Haydock: 2Sa 5:23 - Shall // Trees

Shall, &c. This consultation is omitted in Hebrew. (Calmet) ---

Protestants, "and when David inquired of the Lord, he said, "Thou shalt not," &c. Septuagint, "and David," &c. (Haydock) ---

Trees. Hebrew Becaim. Septuagint, "of lamentation," Judges ii. 1.

Gill: 2Sa 5:23 - And when David inquired of the Lord // he said, thou shalt not go up // but fetch a compass behind them // and come upon them over against the mulberry trees

And when David inquired of the Lord,.... For though he had success before, and got the victory, he would not engage again with them without having the mind and will of God, on whom he knew victory alone depended:

he said, thou shalt not go up; that is, directly, and in a straight line:

but fetch a compass behind them; and get to the rear of them, instead of falling upon them in the front:

and come upon them over against the mulberry trees: which grew in the valley of Rephaim, and near where the Philistines had pitched.