2 Samuel 5:21

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

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

20And David cometh in to Baal-Perazim, and David smiteth them there, and saith, 'Jehovah hath broken forth [on] mine enemies before me, as the breaking forth of waters;' therefore he hath called the name of that place Baal-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 7:5'But thus thou dost to them: their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and their shrines ye cut down, and their graven images ye burn 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 themselves into captivity have gone.

Jeremiah 48:7For, because of thy trusting in thy works, And in thy treasures, even thou art captured, And gone out hath Chemosh 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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