¹⁶ So David did what God commanded, and they struck down the Philistine army all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.

¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command.

¹⁷ Now that you know these things, God will bless you for doing them.

⁵ But his mother told the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

⁶⁷ Shechem (a city of refuge in the hill country of Ephraim),^[a] Gezer,

²⁵ So David did what the Lord commanded, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Gibeon^[a] to Gezer.

⁴² So the people of Israel followed all of the Lord’s instructions to Moses. ⁴³ Then Moses inspected all their work. When he found it had been done just as the Lord had commanded him, he blessed them.

²² So Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him.