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19 David asked the Lord, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?”

The Lord said to David, “Go up, because I will certainly deliver the Philistines into your hand.”

20 So David went to Baal Perazim and defeated them there. He said, “The Lord has broken through my enemies before me like a wall of water.” That is why he named that place Baal Perazim.[a] 21 The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.

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  1. 2 Samuel 5:20 Baal Perazim means lord of breakthroughs.