1 Chronicles 14:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ So they went up to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. David said, “God has burst forth against my enemies by my hand, like a bursting flood.” Therefore that place is called Baal-perazim.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ So they came up to Baal-perazim; and David smote them there. Then David said, God hath broken in upon mine enemies by mine hand like the breaking forth of waters: therefore they called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ So [Israel] came up to Baal-perazim, and David smote [the Philistines] there. Then David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like the bursting forth of waters. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal-perazim [Lord of breaking through].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ So they came up to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there; and David said, God hath broken mine enemies by my hand, like the breach of waters. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

Common English Bible

¹¹ So they marched up to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. “By my strength,” David exclaimed, “God has burst out against my enemies, the way water bursts out.” That’s why the place is called Baal-perazim.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ And when they had ascended to Baal-perazim, David struck them there, and he said: "God has divided my enemies by my hand, just as waters are divided." And therefore the name of that place was called Baal-perazim.

1 Chronicles 14:11 Cross References

Isaiah 28:21

For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazim; he will rage as in the valley of Gibeon to do his deed—strange is his deed!— and to work his work—alien is his work!

Exodus 14:28

The waters returned and covered the chariots and the chariot drivers, the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea; not one of them remained.

Matthew 7:27

The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!”

Psalm 144:10

the one who gives victory to kings, who rescues his servant David.

Job 30:14

As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.

2 Samuel 5:20

So David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. He said, “The Lord has burst forth against my enemies before me like a bursting flood.” Therefore that place is called Baal-perazim.

Psalm 144:1

Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle,

Psalm 44:3

for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm give them victory, but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, for you delighted in them.

1 Chronicles 14:10

David inquired of God, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?” The Lord said to him, “Go up, and I will give them into your hand.”

1 Chronicles 14:12

They abandoned their gods there, and at David’s command they were burned.