1 Chronicles 14:12
Good News Translation
When the Philistines fled, they left their idols behind, and David gave orders for them to be burned.

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

Contemporary English Version
Then David ordered his troops to burn the idols that the Philistines had left behind.

New American Bible
The Philistines abandoned their gods there, and David ordered them to be burnt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they left there their gods, and David commanded that they should be burnt.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they left there their gods, and David commanded that they should be burnt.

were burned

Exodus 12:12 And I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will kill every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast: and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments; I am the Lord.

Exodus 32:20 And laying hold of the calf which they had made, he burnt it, and beat it to powder, which he strewed into water, and gave thereof to the children of Israel to drink.

Deuteronomy 7:5,25 But thus rather shall you deal with them: Destroy their altars, and break their statues, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven things. . . .

1 Samuel 5:2-6 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the temple of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. . . .

2 Kings 19:18 And they have cast their gods into the fire: for they were not gods, but the work of men's hands, of wood and stone, and they destroyed them.

Context
Two Victories over the Philistines
11And when they were come to Baalpharasim, David defeated them there, and he said: God hath divided my enemies by my hand, as waters are divided: and therefore the name of that place was called Baalpharasim. 12And they left there their gods, and David commanded that they should be burnt.13Another time also the Philistines made an irruption, and spread themselves abroad in the valley.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:25
Their graven things thou shalt burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver and gold of which they are made, neither shalt thou take to thee any thing thereof, lest thou offend, because it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

2 Samuel 5:21
And they left there their idols: which David and his men took away.

1 Chronicles 14:11
And when they were come to Baalpharasim, David defeated them there, and he said: God hath divided my enemies by my hand, as waters are divided: and therefore the name of that place was called Baalpharasim.

1 Chronicles 14:13
Another time also the Philistines made an irruption, and spread themselves abroad in the valley.

1 Chronicles 14:11
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