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19 David asked the Lord, “Shall I attack the Philistines? Will you give me the victory?”

“Yes, attack!” the Lord answered. “I will give you the victory!”

20 So David went to Baal Perazim and there he defeated the Philistines. He said, “The Lord has broken through my enemies like a flood.” And so that place is called Baal Perazim.[a] 21 When the Philistines fled, they left their idols behind, and David and his men carried them away.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 5:20 This name in Hebrew means “Lord of the Breakthrough.”

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