2 Samuel 5:22

22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

2 Samuel 5:22 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 5:22

And the Philistines came up yet again
And, as Josephus says ^F26, with an army three times larger than the former:

and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim;
in the same place where they were before, ( 2 Samuel 5:20 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Antiqu. l. 7. c. 4. sect. 1.

2 Samuel 5:22 In-Context

20 And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there; and he said, Jehovah hath broken mine enemies before me, like the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

21 And they left their images there; and David and his men took them away.

22 And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

23 And when David inquired of Jehovah, he said, Thou shalt not go up: make a circuit behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry-trees.

24 And it shall be, when thou hearest the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry-trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself; for then is Jehovah gone out before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.