大卫又求问神。神说：“不要一直地上去，要转到他们后头，从桑林对面攻打他们。

大卫再求问上帝。上帝对他说：“不要从他们后头追上去，要绕道离开他们，从桑树林对面攻打他们。

大卫再求问神。神对他说：“不要从他们后头追上去，要绕道离开他们，从桑树林对面攻打他们。

大卫又求问上帝，上帝对他说：“你不要正面出击，要绕到他们后面，从桑林对面攻打他们。

大卫又求问神，神对他说：“不可在后面追赶他们，要绕过他们，从桑林对面攻打他们。

大衛又求問神。神說：「不要一直地上去，要轉到他們後頭，從桑林對面攻打他們。

大衛再求問上帝。上帝對他說：「不要從他們後頭追上去，要繞道離開他們，從桑樹林對面攻打他們。

大衛再求問神。神對他說：「不要從他們後頭追上去，要繞道離開他們，從桑樹林對面攻打他們。

大衛又求問上帝，上帝對他說：「你不要正面出擊，要繞到他們後面，從桑林對面攻打他們。

大衛又求問神，神對他說：“不可在後面追趕他們，要繞過他們，從桑林對面攻打他們。

大衛又求問上帝，上帝對他說：『你不要一直上去追他們；要繞過他們，從桑樹林對面去攻打他們。

大衛復諮諏上帝、上帝曰、勿往迎之、宜遶其後、於桑林相對之所攻之、

大闢詢上帝、上帝曰、爾勿往前、宜襲其後、在桑林相對之所。

大衛又問天主、天主曰、勿上追之、當由其後而轉、從桑樹相對之處攻之、

so David inquired of God again, and God answered him,“ Do not go directly after them, but circle around them and attack them in front of the poplar trees.

So David asked God for advice again. God answered him,“ Do not go straight after them. Instead, circle around them. Attack them in front of the poplar trees.

And when David again inquired of God, God said to him,“ You shall not go up after them; go around and come against them opposite the balsam trees.

And once again David asked God what to do.“ Do not attack them straight on,” God replied.“ Instead, circle around behind and attack them near the poplar trees.

So David again inquired of God, and God answered him,“ Do not pursue them directly. Circle around them and attack them opposite the balsam trees.

David inquired again of God, and God said to him,“ You shall not go up after them; circle around behind them and come at them in front of the baka shrubs.

Therefore David inquired again of God, and God said to him,“ You shall not go up after them; circle around them, and come upon them in front of the mulberry trees.

And David inquired again of God; and God said unto him, Thou shalt not go up after them: turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry- trees.

So David again inquired of God, and God answered him,“ Do not pursue them directly. Circle around them and attack them opposite the balsam trees.

Therefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.

So David again asked God what he should do. This time God told him,“ Don’t march up after them; circle around them and come against them in front of the trees.

David inquired again of God; and God said to him,“ You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them opposite the mulberry trees.

One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. (niv)

After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.“ Go,” he told him,“ wash in the Pool of Siloam”( this word means“ Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing. (niv)

You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.”So Joshua and the whole army moved out to attack Ai. He chose thirty thousand of his best fighting men and sent them out at nightwith these orders:“ Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from it. All of you be on the alert.I and all those with me will advance on the city, and when the men come out against us, as they did before, we will flee from them.They will pursue us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say,‘ They are running away from us as they did before.’ So when we flee from them,you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The Lord your God will give it into your hand. (niv)

so David inquired of God:“ Shall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hands?” The Lord answered him,“ Go, I will deliver them into your hands.” (niv)