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Two Victories over the Philistines

2 Samuel 5:18

In 11 translations

BSB
Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
KJV
The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
WEB
Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
ASV
Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
LSV
and the Philistines have come, and are spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
YLT
and the Philistines have come, and are spread out in the valley of Rephaim.
DBY
And the Philistines came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
DRC
And the Philistines coming spread themselves in the valley of Raphaim.
GNV
But the Philistims came, and spred themselues in the valley of Rephaim.
JPS
Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
LXXE
And the Philistines came, and assembled in the valley of the giants.Lit. Titans. Heb. Rephaim. See also Appendix. which refers us to Govett's work on the book of the prophet Isaiah.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וּפְלִשְׁתִּ֖ים בָּ֑אוּ וַיִּנָּטְשׁ֖וּ בְּעֵ֥מֶק רְפָאִֽים׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι παραγίνονται, καὶ συνέπεσαν εἰς τὴν κοιλάδα τῶν Τιτάνων.

Who and where

📍 Valley of Rephaim◆ Reign of David

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Joshua 15:8From there the border went up the Valley of Hinnom along the southern slope of the Jebusites (that is, Jerusalem) and ascended to the top of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom on the west, at the northern end of…
  • Joshua 17:15Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”
  • Genesis 14:5In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
  • 2 Samuel 23:13At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
  • Joshua 18:16Then it went down to the foot of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim and ran down the Valley of Hinnom toward the southern slope of the Jebusites and downward to…
  • Isaiah 17:5as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
  • 1 Chronicles 11:15Three of the thirty chief men went down to David, to the rock at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.

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