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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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
left	וַיַּעַזְבוּ vai.ya.'az.vu-	H5800	to loosen · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
gods	אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶ֑ם 'e.lo.hei.Hem	H430	gods in the ordinary sense · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
David	דָּוִ֔יד da.Vid	H1732	David · proper noun, a man's name
commandment	וַיֹּ֣אמֶר vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
burned	וַיִּשָּׂרְפ֖וּ vai.yi.sa.re.Fu	H8313	to be (causatively · conjunction + verb, niphal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
fire	בָּאֵֽשׁ ba.'Esh	H784	fire (literally or figuratively) · preposition with the article + noun, common both genders singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Exodus 32:20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the chi…
2 Kings 19:18 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed th…
Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their grav…
Deuteronomy 7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, le…
1 Samuel 5:2-6 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
Exodus 12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 14:8–end

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 advancement, and engage us to expect molestation in this world. When we are most easy something or other may come to be a terror or vexation to us. Christ's kingdom will thus be insulted by the serpent's seed, especially when it makes any advances. 2. Let David's enquiry of God, once and again, upon occasion of the Philistines' invading him, direct us in all our ways to acknowledge God - in distress to fly to him, when we are wronged to appeal to him, and, when we know not what to do, to ask couns…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Chronicles 14:12

when they had left their gods--(See on Sa2 5:21).

Adam Clarke on 1 Chronicles 14:11

Like the breaking forth of waters - "And David said, The Lord hath broken the enemies of David like to the breaking of a potter's vessel full of water." - T.

John Gill on 1 Chronicles 14:1

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Keil & Delitzsch on 1 Chronicles 14:1–end

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Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Chronicles 14:12

David’s orders to burn the Philistine idols conformed to God’s instructions (Deut 7:5).

Rashi on 1 Chronicles 14:11

And they went up to Baal-Perazim which was later called Baal-Perazim because of the incident that occurred there. God has broken my enemies in my hand meaning that they fled and were broken off from one another. like a breach of waters like waves of water that break from their place and fall somewhere else.

Dictionary and topics

Philistines — (Gen. 10:14, R.V.; but in A.V., “Philistim”), a tribe allied to the Phoenicians. They were a branch of the primitive race which spread over the whole district of the Lebanon and the valley of the…
Armies · Often destroyed by: Brought their idols with them — Often destroyed by: Brought their idols with them
Iconoclasm · .David — .David
Philistines · General references — General references

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).