2 Samuel 5:21-23

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

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

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

²³When David inquired of the Lord, He said, You shall not go up, but go around behind them and come upon them over opposite the mulberry (or balsam) trees.

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Footnotes

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).