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19 so David asked the Lord, “Am I to go attack the Philistines? Will you give me victory over them?”[a]

“Go get them,” the Lord replied to David, “because I’m going to put the Philistines right into your hand!”

20 So David went to Baal-perazim and defeated them there. He called the place Baal-perazim,[b] because he said, “Like a bursting flood, the Lord has jumped out in front of me to fight my enemies.” 21 The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his army carried them off.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 5:19 Lit. give them into my hand
  2. 2 Samuel 5:20 The Heb. name means Lord of breaking forth; cf. 2Sam 6:8