2 Samuel 5:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And David did as the Lord had said; and he overcame the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon to near Gezer.

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  • 1 Chr 14:16 : 16 And David did as the Lord had said; and they overcame the army of the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon as far as Gezer.
  • Isa 28:21 : 21 For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his work--strange is his work; and give effect to his act--unnatural is his act.
  • Josh 16:10 : 10 And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.

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  • 1 Chr 14:13-16
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    13 Then the Philistines again went out in every direction in the valley.

    14 And David went for directions to God; and God said to him, You are not to go up after them; but, turning away from them, come face to face with them opposite the spice-trees.

    15 And at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go out to the fight, for God has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines.

    16 And David did as the Lord had said; and they overcame the army of the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon as far as Gezer.

  • 2 Sam 5:17-20
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    78%

    17 And when the Philistines had news that David had been made king over Israel, they all went up in search of David; and David, hearing of it, went down to the strong place.

    18 And when the Philistines came, they went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.

    19 And David, desiring directions from the Lord, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? will you give them up into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up, for I will certainly give up the Philistines into your hands.

    20 And David went to Baal-perazim, and overcame them there; and he said, The Lord has let the forces fighting against me be broken before me as a wall is broken by rushing waters. So that place was named Baal-perazim.

  • 1 Sam 23:1-2
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    78%

    1 And they sent word to David, saying, The Philistines are fighting against Keilah and taking the grain from the grain-floors.

    2 So David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go and make an attack on these Philistines? And the Lord said to David, Go and make an attack on the Philistines so that Keilah may be kept from falling into their hands.

  • 1 Chr 18:1
    77%

    1 And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them, and took Gath with its daughter-towns out of the hands of the Philistines.

  • 1 Chr 14:8-10
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    76%

    8 And when the Philistines had news that David had been made king over all Israel, they went up in search of David, and David, hearing of it, went out against them.

    9 Now the Philistines had come, and had gone out in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.

    10 And David, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? and will you give them into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up; for I will give them into your hands.

  • 2 Sam 24:19
    76%

    19 So David went up, as Gad had said and as the Lord had given orders.

  • 2 Sam 5:22-24
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    22 And the Philistines came up again, and went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.

    23 And when David went for directions to the Lord, he said, You are not to go up against them in front; but make a circle round them from the back and come on them opposite the spice-trees.

    24 Then at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go forward quickly, for the Lord has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 23:4-5
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    4 Then David put the question to the Lord again, and the Lord answering said, Up! go down to Keilah; for I will give the Philistines into your hands.

    5 So David and his men went to Keilah, and had a fight with the Philistines, and took away their cattle, and put them to the sword with great destruction. So David was the saviour of the people of Keilah.

  • 1 Sam 17:48-52
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    48 Now when the Philistine made a move and came near to David, David quickly went at a run in the direction of the army, meeting the Philistine face to face.

    49 And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and sent it from his leather band straight at the Philistine, and the stone went deep into his brow, and he went down to the earth, falling on his face.

    50 So David overcame the Philistine with his leather band and a stone, wounding the Philistine and causing his death: but David had no sword in his hand.

    51 So running up to the Philistine and putting his foot on him, David took his sword out of its cover, and put him to death, cutting off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their fighter was dead, they went in flight.

    52 And the men of Israel and of Judah got up, and gave a cry, and went after the Philistines as far as Gath and the town doors of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines were falling down by the road from Shaaraim all the way to Gath and Ekron.

  • 2 Kgs 18:8
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    8 He overcame the Philistines as far as Gaza and its limits, from the tower of the watchman to the walled town.

  • 2 Sam 3:18
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    18 For the Lord has said of David, By the hand of my servant David I will make my people Israel safe from the Philistines, and from all who are against them.

  • 2 Sam 8:1
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    1 And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them; and David took the authority of the mother-town from the hands of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 17:45-46
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    45 Then David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword and a spear and a javelin: but I come to you in the name of the Lord of armies, the God of the armies of Israel on which you have put shame.

    46 This day the Lord will give you up into my hands, and I will overcome you, and take your head off you; and I will give the bodies of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth today, so that all the earth may see that Israel has a God;

  • 1 Sam 17:23
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    23 And while he was talking to them, the fighter, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came out from the Philistines' lines and said the same words, in David's hearing.

  • 1 Sam 17:37
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    37 And David said, The Lord, who kept me safe from the grip of the lion and the bear, will be my saviour from the hands of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go! and may the Lord be with you.

  • 2 Sam 23:10
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    10 He was with David and went on fighting the Philistines till his hand became tired and stiff from gripping his sword: and that day the Lord gave a great salvation, and the people came back after him only to take the goods of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    73%

    8 And there was war again: and David went out fighting the Philistines, causing great destruction among them; and they went in flight before him.

  • 1 Sam 17:20
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    20 And David got up early in the morning, and, giving the sheep into the care of a keeper, took the things and went as Jesse had said; and he came to the lines where the carts were, when the army was going out to the fight giving their war-cry.

  • 1 Sam 17:41
    73%

    41 And the Philistine came nearer to David; and the man who had his body-cover went before him.

  • 1 Sam 28:1
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    1 Now in those days the Philistines got their forces together to make war on Israel. And Achish said to David, Certainly you and your men are to go out with me to the fight.

  • 1 Chr 21:19
    72%

    19 And David went up, as Gad had said in the name of the Lord.

  • 1 Sam 22:5
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    5 And the prophet Gad said to David, Do not go on living in this place but go into the land of Judah. Then David went away and came to the woodland of Hereth.

  • 2 Sam 23:12
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    12 But he kept his place in the middle of the bit of land, and kept back their attack and overcame the Philistines: and the Lord gave a great salvation.

  • 2 Sam 5:10
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    10 And David became greater and greater; for the Lord, the God of armies, was with him.

  • 1 Sam 27:11
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    11 Not one living man or woman did David ever take back with him to Gath, fearing that they might give an account of what had taken place, and say, This is what David did, and so has he been doing all the time while he has been living in the land of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 17:54
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    54 And David took the head of the Philistine to Jerusalem, but the metal war-dress and the arms he put in his tent.

  • 1 Sam 7:11
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    11 And the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and went after the Philistines, attacking them till they came under Beth-car.

  • 1 Sam 27:2
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    2 So David and the six hundred men who were with him went over to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

  • 2 Sam 21:15
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    15 And the Philistines went to war again with Israel; and David went down with his people, and while they were at Gob they had a fight with the Philistines:

  • 2 Chr 26:6
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    6 He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
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    9 And David again and again made attacks on the land till not a man or a woman was still living; and he took away the sheep and the oxen and the asses and the camels and the clothing; and he came back to Achish.

  • 1 Chr 13:5
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    5 So David sent for all Israel to come together, from Shihor, the river of Egypt, as far as the way into Hamath, to get the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

  • 2 Sam 5:7
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    7 But David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.