18. The Philistines arrived and spread out across the valley of Rephaim.
19. So David asked the lord, “Should I go out to fight the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?”The lord replied to David, “Yes, go ahead. I will certainly hand them over to you.”
20. So David went to Baal-perazim and defeated the Philistines there. “The lord did it!” David exclaimed. “He burst through my enemies like a raging flood!” So he named that place Baal-perazim (which means “the Lord who bursts through”).
21. The Philistines had abandoned their idols there, so David and his men confiscated them.
22. But after a while the Philistines returned and again spread out across the valley of Rephaim.