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20 And David came to Baal-perazim, and he smote them there, and said, The Lord has broken through my enemies before me, like the bursting out of great waters. So he called the name of that place Baal-perazim [Lord of breaking through].

21 There the Philistines left their [a]images, and David and his men took them away.

22 The Philistines came up again and spread themselves out in the Valley of Rephaim.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 5:21 The Israelites took as spoil the images of the Philistines, perhaps to display in triumphal procession, though they were afterward burned (I Chron. 14:12) in compliance with the law of Deut. 7:5, 25. Thus the old disgrace of the capture of the ark by the Philistines was avenged (I Sam. 4:4, 10, 11) (The Cambridge Bible).

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