as the breach of waters Isaiah calls the scene of the battle "mountPerazim" (Isaiah 28:21). David, we may suppose, occupied the hill, and swept down from it upon the Philistines in the plain below, scattering them irresistibly as a mountain torrent swollen by a sudden storm sweeps all before it and bursts through every obstacle in its way.

Baal-perazim Baal = owneror possessor, so that the name signifies "Place of breaches."

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