Baal-perazim

Baal-perazim ("lord of breakthroughs") was the site of David's first great victory after Israel anointed him king at Hebron (2 Samuel 5:17-21). When the Philistines invaded the Valley of Rephaim southwest of Jerusalem to crush the newly united kingdom, David attacked and routed them so decisively that he named the place for the Lord's "breaking out against my enemies like the bursting forth of waters." The fleeing Philistines abandoned their idols, which David burned. Isaiah later invoked Mount Perazim alongside the Valley of Gibeon as a type of God's sudden, devastating intervention (Isaiah 28:21). The site lay in the Valley of Rephaim southwest of Jerusalem.