2 Samuel 5:21

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The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men picked them up.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 7:5 : 5 Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.
  • Deut 7:25 : 25 You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
  • 1 Sam 5:2-6 : 2 The Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the temple of Dagon, where they positioned it beside Dagon. 3 When the residents of Ashdod got up early the next day, Dagon was lying on the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place. 4 But when they got up early the following day, Dagon was again lying on the ground before the ark of the LORD. The head of Dagon and his two hands were sheared off and were lying at the threshold. Only Dagon’s body was left intact. 5 (For this reason, to this very day, neither Dagon’s priests nor anyone else who enters Dagon’s temple step on Dagon’s threshold in Ashdod.) 6 The LORD attacked the residents of Ashdod severely, bringing devastation on them. He struck the people of both Ashdod and the surrounding area with sores.
  • 1 Chr 14:11-12 : 11 So they marched against Baal Perazim and David defeated them there. David said,“Using me as his instrument, God has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So that place is called Baal Perazim. 12 The Philistines left their idols there, so David ordered that they be burned.
  • Isa 37:19 : 19 They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.
  • Isa 46:1-2 : 1 The Lord Carries His People Bel kneels down, Nebo bends low. Their images weigh down animals and beasts. Your heavy images are burdensome to tired animals. 2 Together they bend low and kneel down; they are unable to rescue the images; they themselves head off into captivity.
  • Jer 43:12 : 12 He will set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt. He will burn their gods or carry them off as captives. He will pick Egypt clean like a shepherd picks the lice from his clothing. He will leave there unharmed.

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  • 1 Chr 14:11-13
    3 verses
    87%

    11So they marched against Baal Perazim and David defeated them there. David said,“Using me as his instrument, God has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So that place is called Baal Perazim.

    12The Philistines left their idols there, so David ordered that they be burned.

    13The Philistines again raided the valley.

  • 2 Sam 5:17-20
    4 verses
    77%

    17Conflict with the Philistines When the Philistines heard that David had been designated king over Israel, they all went up to search for David. When David heard about it, he went down to the fortress.

    18Now the Philistines had arrived and spread out in the valley of Rephaim.

    19So David asked the LORD,“Should I march up against the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?” The LORD said to David,“March up, for I will indeed hand the Philistines over to you.”

    20So David marched against Baal Perazim and defeated them there. Then he said,“The LORD has burst out against my enemies like water bursts out.” So he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

  • 2 Kgs 10:26
    75%

    26They hauled out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.

  • Deut 7:5
    73%

    5Instead, this is what you must do to them: You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, cut down their sacred Asherah poles, and burn up their idols.

  • 2 Sam 5:22
    72%

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

  • Num 31:10
    72%

    10They burned all their towns where they lived and all their encampments.

  • Isa 37:19
    72%

    19They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

  • 1 Sam 30:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1David Defeats the Amalekites On the third day David and his men came to Ziklag. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They attacked Ziklag and burned it.

    2They took captive the women and all who were in it, from the youngest to the oldest, but they did not kill anyone. They simply carried them off and went on their way.

    3When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned. Their wives, sons, and daughters had been taken captive.

  • 2 Kgs 23:14
    72%

    14He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled those shrines with human bones.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    71%

    18They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

  • Deut 12:3
    71%

    3You must tear down their altars, shatter their sacred pillars, burn up their sacred Asherah poles, and cut down the images of their gods; you must eliminate their very memory from that place.

  • 2 Chr 34:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4He ordered the altars of the Baals to be torn down, and broke the incense altars that were above them. He smashed the Asherah poles, idols and images, crushed them up and sprinkled the dust over the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.

    5He burned the bones of the pagan priests on their altars; he purified Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 27:9
    70%

    9When David would attack a district, he would leave neither man nor woman alive. He would take sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing and would then go back to Achish.

  • 1 Sam 23:5
    70%

    5So David and his men went to Keilah and fought the Philistines. He took away their cattle and thoroughly defeated them. David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

  • 1 Chr 14:16
    70%

    16David did just as God commanded him, and they struck down the Philistine army from Gibeon to Gezer.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-11
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    70%

    10They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

    11They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the LORD had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the LORD angry.

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    70%

    8Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly and they ran away from him.

  • 2 Sam 5:25
    69%

    25David did just as the LORD commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines from Gibeon all the way to Gezer.

  • Num 33:52
    69%

    52you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    69%

    1When all this was over, the Israelites who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities.

  • Deut 7:25
    69%

    25You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God.

  • 1 Sam 31:12
    69%

    12all their warriors set out and traveled throughout the night. They took Saul’s corpse and the corpses of his sons from the city wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:16
    69%

    16They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, and worshiped Baal.

  • Judg 18:21
    68%

    21They turned and went on their way, but they walked behind the children, the cattle, and their possessions.

  • 1 Sam 23:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1David Delivers the City of Keilah They told David,“The Philistines are fighting in Keilah and are looting the threshing floors.”

    2So David asked the LORD,“Should I go and strike down these Philistines?” The LORD said to David,“Go, strike down the Philistines and deliver Keilah.”

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
    68%

    7He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon,“This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.

  • Judg 18:17
    68%

    17The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men.

  • 1 Sam 7:11
    68%

    11Then the men of Israel left Mizpah and chased the Philistines, striking them down all the way to an area below Beth Car.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    68%

    7The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. The slaughter there was great that day– 20,000 soldiers were killed.

  • 1 Chr 21:28
    68%

    28At that time, when David saw that the LORD responded to him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

  • 2 Sam 21:12
    68%

    12he went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan from the leaders of Jabesh Gilead.(They had secretly taken them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines publicly exposed their corpses after they had killed Saul at Gilboa.)

  • 1 Sam 17:53
    68%

    53When the Israelites returned from their hot pursuit of the Philistines, they looted their camp.

  • 1 Sam 30:20-21
    2 verses
    67%

    20David took all the flocks and herds and drove them in front of the rest of the animals. People were saying,“This is David’s plunder!”

    21Then David approached the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him, those whom they had left at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and the people who were with him. When David approached the people, he asked how they were doing.

  • 1 Chr 21:21
    67%

    21When David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David; he came out from the threshing floor and bowed to David with his face to the ground.

  • Exod 34:13
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    13Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.

  • 1 Chr 22:1
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    1David then said,“This is the place where the temple of the LORD God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel.”

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    67%

    6He removed the Asherah pole from the LORD’s temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard.

  • 1 Chr 21:26
    67%

    26David built there an altar to the LORD and offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings. He called out to the LORD, and the LORD responded by sending fire from the sky and consuming the burnt sacrifice on the altar.

  • 2 Kgs 23:4
    67%

    4The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the high-ranking priests, and the guards to bring out of the LORD’s temple all the items that were used in the worship of Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky. The king burned them outside of Jerusalem in the terraces of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.