2 Samuel 5:21

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Summary

2 Samuel 5:21

And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.

David

Burned them

Isaiah 46:1

Jeremiah 43:12

Bible References

David

But thus you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.

So they came up to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there; and David said, “God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like the breakthrough of waters.” Therefore they named that place Baal-perazim.

and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

Burned them

Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;

Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle.
The things that you carry are burdensome,
A load for the weary beast.

And I shall set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself with his garment, and he will depart from there safely.