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Baal-perazim

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Baal-perazim, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

  • Reign of David · 1054 BC · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Baal having rents, bursts, or destructions, the scene of a victory gained by David over the Philistines (2 Sam. 5:20; 1 Chr. 14:11). Called Mount Perazim (Isa. 28:21). It was near the valley of Rephaim, west of Jerusalem. Identified with the modern Jebel Aly.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 2 verses

2 Samuel
5:20
1 Chronicles
14:11

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.