Contemplative Bible Reading

2 Samuel 5:20-21

²⁰ So David went to Baal-perazim and defeated the Philistines there. “The Lord did it!” David exclaimed. “He burst through my enemies like a raging flood!” So he named that place Baal-perazim (which means “the Lord who bursts through”). ²¹ The Philistines had abandoned their idols there, so David and his men confiscated them.

Here we go again. We find a case where God’s people did something that makes us wonder what was going through their heads.

David and the army defeat another enemy. David gives the glory to the LORD.

And then they confiscate the idols of the defeated enemy.

What were they going to do with these idols? These little rocks and sticks and stuff? I guess you could put them in your army’s trophy case or something. You would use them as an example of silly idolatry or something. I guess.

I don’t know. Why would anyone want to see these worthless idols? Something tells me that some time in the future the people actually worshiped these idols. How silly.

I guess we do the same today. We spend a little (or a lot) too much time with the things that the ungodly prize.