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When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then stir yourself up; for then the LORD has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 24. Trees. Many translate the Hebrew “mulberry trees,” or leave the original word, becaim, “the heights of Bochim.” Septuagint seem to give a double version: “the sound of the agitation (or Alex. “shutting up,” ( Bible.) as with an army on all sides) of the woods, of the lamentation.” Menochius.—Theodoret supposes, “the woods put in motion, without any wind.” It is thought that an army of spirits went before David, and threw the enemy into a panic. Storms of hail, and so forth seem to have also cut them down. Isaiah 28:21, Psalms 17:9.
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