²⁴ And it shall be, when you ^(A)hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then you shall advance quickly. For then ^(B)the Lord will go out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”

⁶ For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians ^(A)to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses—the noise of a great army; so they said to one another, “Look, the king of Israel has hired against us ^(B)the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us!”

¹⁴ Then Deborah said to Barak, ^[a]“Up! For this is the day in which the Lord has delivered Sisera into your hand. ^(A)Has not the Lord gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

¹⁵ And so it was, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel, and said, “Arise, for the Lord has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.”

¹⁵ And it shall be, when you hear a sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then you shall go out to battle, for God has gone out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”

⁹ If they say thus to us, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stand still in our place and not go up to them. ¹⁰ But if they say thus, ‘Come up to us,’ then we will go up. For the Lord has delivered them into our hand, and ^(A)this will be a sign to us.”

¹¹ So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have ^(B)hidden.” ¹² Then the men of the garrison called to Jonathan and his armorbearer, and said, “Come up to us, and we will ^[a]show you something.”

Jonathan said to his armorbearer, “Come up after me, for the Lord has delivered them into the hand of Israel.”

¹¹ and ^(A)that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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¹² Therefore, my beloved, ^(B)as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, ^(C)work out your own salvation with ^(D)fear and trembling;