📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 14:13
What does 1 Chronicles 14:13 mean?
"The Philistines made a another raid in the valley."
— 1 Chronicles 14:13 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
David inquired of God, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver them into my hand?” Yahweh said to him, “Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand.”
So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David defeated them there. David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like waters breaking out. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
They left their gods there; and David gave a command, and they were burned with fire.
The Philistines made a another raid in the valley.
David inquired again of God; and God said to him, “You shall not go up after them. Turn away from them, and come on them opposite the mulberry trees.
When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry trees, then go out to battle; for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.”
David did as God commanded him; and they attacked the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.
Explanation
First Chronicles 14:13 records a brief but important narrative detail: after their initial defeat, the Philistines regrouped and launched another attack, spreading out again in the same valley where they had fought David before—the Valley of Rephaim, near Jerusalem. In plain terms, the verse simply notes that the enemy did not give up after one loss; they came back for a second round.
The context is David's early reign
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