2 Samuel 5:20 - John Wesley's Notes

2 Samuel 5:20

18 The Philistines also went and deployed themselves in ^athe Valley of Rephaim.

19 So David ^ainquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?” And the Lord said to David, “Go up, for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

20 So David went to ^aBaal Perazim, and David defeated them there; and he said, “The Lord has broken through my enemies before me, like a breakthrough of water.” Therefore he called the name of that place¹ Baal Perazim.

21 And they left their¹ images there, and David and his men ^acarried them away.

22 ^aThen the Philistines went up once again and deployed themselves in the Valley of Rephaim.

23 Therefore ^aDavid inquired of the Lord, and He said, “You shall not go up; circle around behind them, and come upon them in front of the mulberry trees.

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Baal - perazim - Whither the Philistines were come from the valley of Rephraim, I Chronicles 14:11. Baal - perazim, signifies the master of the breaches: So he ascribes all to God. As waters - As floods or rivers of waters, which break the banks, and overflow a land, and overturn all that stands in their way.

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