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- Chapter 14
- Verse 12
1 Chronicles 14:12
And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
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Barnes' Notes
When they had left their gods there - The practice of carrying images of the gods to battle was common among the nations of antiquity, and arose from the belief that there was virtue in the images…
This narrative of David's triumph over the Philistines is much the same with that, Sa2 5:17, etc. 1. Let the attack which the Philistines made upon David forbid us to be secure in any settlement or…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
And when they had left their gods there, Davidetc.] R.V. And they left their gods there; and David etc.
David gave a commandment, and they were burnt In 2Sa 5:21 (R.V.) David and his men took them…
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