Mulberry Tree
David had just beaten the Philistines once, and they came back in force. This time he asked the LORD what to do and was told not to charge straight ahead. He was to circle behind them and wait near the mulberry trees. When David heard “the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees,” that was his signal to move, because the LORD had gone out before him. The trees mark the moment in 2 Samuel 5 when waiting patiently mattered as much as fighting, and God set the timing.
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2 Samuel
And when David enquired 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 let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
Psalms
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.