And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Philistines came up yet again,.... And, as Josephus says (z), with an army three times larger than the former:
and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim; in the same place where they…
Barnes' Notes
Baal-perazim - Master or possessor of breaches, equivalent to place of breaches. It was on a hill near Gibeon (see the marginal reference).
Adam Clarke
The Lord hath broken forth - He very properly attributes the victory of Jehovah, without whose strength and counsel he could have done nothing.
Baal-perazim - The plain or chief of breaches, because…
The particular service for which David was raised up was to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, Sa2 3:18. This therefore divine Providence, in the first place, gives him an opportunity of…
Cambridge Bible
as the breach of waters Isaiah calls the scene of the battle "mountPerazim" (Isa 28:21). David, we may suppose, occupied the hill, and swept down from it upon the Philistines in the plain below,…