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the Week of Proper 17 / Ordinary 22
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Green's Literal Translation

1 Chronicles 14:12

And they left their gods there. And David commanded, and they were burned with fire.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Iconoclasm;   Philistines;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Armies;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Tyre or Tyrus;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Philistia;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Rephaim, Valley of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Rephaim;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Philis'tines;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire.
Hebrew Names Version
They left their gods there; and David gave mitzvah, and they were burned with fire.
King James Version
And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
English Standard Version
And they left their gods there, and David gave command, and they were burned.
New Century Version
The Philistines had left their idols there, so David ordered his men to burn them.
New English Translation
The Philistines left their idols there, so David ordered that they be burned.
Amplified Bible
The Philistines abandoned their gods (idols) there; so David gave a command and they were burned in a fire [as the Law of Moses required].
New American Standard Bible
They abandoned their gods there; so David gave the order and they were burned with fire.
World English Bible
They left their gods there; and David gave commandment, and they were burned with fire.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And there they had left their gods: and Dauid said, Let them euen be burnt with fire.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they forsook their gods there; so David said the word, and they were burned with fire.
Berean Standard Bible
There the Philistines abandoned their gods, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire.
Contemporary English Version
Then David ordered his troops to burn the idols that the Philistines had left behind.
Complete Jewish Bible
The P'lishtim had left their gods there, so David gave an order, and they were burned up completely.
Darby Translation
And they left their gods there; and David commanded, and they were burned with fire.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Philistines had left their idols at Baal Perazim. David ordered his men to burn the idols.
George Lamsa Translation
And when they had left their idols there, David gave a commandment to his mighty men, saying. Burn them with fire and scatter their ashes to the wind.
Good News Translation
When the Philistines fled, they left their idols behind, and David gave orders for them to be burned.
Lexham English Bible
And they abandoned their gods there. And David commanded, and they were burnt with fire.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And there lefte they their goddes. Then commaunded Dauid to burne them with fyre.
American Standard Version
And they left their gods there; and David gave commandment, and they were burned with fire.
Bible in Basic English
And the Philistines did not take their images with them in their flight; and at David's orders they were burned with fire.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And when they had left their gods there, Dauid gaue a commaundement, and they were burnt with fire.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they left their gods there; and David gave commandment, and they were burned with fire.
King James Version (1611)
And when they had left their gods there, Dauid gaue a commandement, and they were burnt with fire.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Philistines left their gods there; and David gave orders to burn them with fire.
English Revised Version
And they left their gods there; and David gave commandment, and they were burned with fire.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
which Dauid comaundide to be brent.
Update Bible Version
And they left their gods there; and David gave commandment, and they were burned with fire.
Webster's Bible Translation
And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
New King James Version
And when they left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
New Living Translation
The Philistines had abandoned their gods there, so David gave orders to burn them.
New Life Bible
The Philistines left their gods there. So David had them burned with fire.
New Revised Standard
They abandoned their gods there, and at David's command they were burned.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they left their gods there, - and David gave the word, and they were burned up in fire.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they left there their gods, and David commanded that they should be burnt.
Revised Standard Version
And they left their gods there, and David gave command, and they were burned.
Young's Literal Translation
And they leave there their gods, and David speaketh, and they are burnt with fire.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They abandoned their gods there; so David gave the order and they were burned with fire.

Contextual Overview

8 And the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel. And all the Philistines went up to seek David. And David heard, and went out before them. 9 And the Philistines came and made a raid in the Valley of the Giants. 10 And David asked of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines; and, Have You given them into my hand? And Jehovah said to him, Go up, and I will give them into your hand. 11 And they went up to Baal-perazim, and David struck them there. And David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like the breaking of the waters; so they called the name of that place The Breach of Baal. 12 And they left their gods there. And David commanded, and they were burned with fire. 13 And yet again the Philistines raided in the valley. 14 And David again inquired of God. And God spoke to him, You shall not go up after them; turn away from them and come to them across from the weeping trees. 15 And it shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the weeping trees, then you shall go out in the battle; for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines. 16 And David did as God commanded him. And they struck the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer. 17 And the name of David went out into all the lands; and Jehovah put the dread of him on all the nations.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

were burned: Exodus 12:12, Exodus 32:20, Deuteronomy 7:5, Deuteronomy 7:25, 1 Samuel 5:2-6, 2 Kings 19:18

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 5:21 - David

Cross-References

Genesis 11:27
And these are the generations of Terah: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran fathered Lot.
Genesis 12:5
And Abram took his wife Sarai, and his brother's son, Lot, and all their substance that they had gained, and the persons they had gotten in Haran. And they went out to go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land of Canaan.
Genesis 14:9
with Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal the king of the nations, and Amraphel the king of Shinar, and Arioch the king of Ellasar; four kings with the five.
Genesis 14:11
And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and went away.
Genesis 14:12
And they took Lot, the son of Abram's brother, and his goods, and left; and he was living in Sodom.
Genesis 14:13
And one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew; for he was living among the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner. And these were possessor of a covenant with Abram.
Genesis 14:17
And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after he returned from smiting Chedorlaomer and the kings which were with him, to the valley of Shaveh, it being the valley of the king.
Genesis 14:19
And he blessed him and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of Heaven and earth;
Numbers 16:26
And he spoke to the congregation, saying, Please turn away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything that they have, lest you be consumed in all their sins.
Job 9:23
If the whip kills suddenly, He will mock at the testing of the innocent.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 themselves, and that military success would be obtained by means of them.


 
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