2 Samuel 5:21

And they forsake their idols there, and David and his men lift them up.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.

In Context

20And David comes to Ba‘al-Perazim, and David strikes them there, and says, “YHWH has broken forth [on] my enemies before me, as the breaking forth of waters”; therefore he has called the name of that place Ba‘al-Perazim.

22And the Philistines add again to come up, and are spread out in the Valley of Rephaim,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:5But thus you do to them: you break down their altars, and you shatter their standing pillars, and you cut down their Asherim, and you burn their carved images with fire.

1 Samuel 5:2and the Philistines take the Ark of God and bring it into the house of Dagon, and set it near Dagon.

Isaiah 37:19so as to put their gods into fire—for they [are] no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone—and they destroy them.

Isaiah 46:2They have stooped, they have bowed together, || They have not been able to deliver the burden, || And have gone into captivity themselves.

Jeremiah 48:7For because of your trusting in your works, || And in your treasures, even you are captured, || And Chemosh has gone out in a removal, || His priests and his heads together.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 5:18-25

David Defeats the Philistines. ( b. c. 1046.) 17 But when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines came up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the hold. 18 The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim. 19 And David enquired of the Lord , saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the Lord said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand. 20 And… Read the whole commentary →

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