perazim Summary and Overview

(a breach), Mount, a name which occurs in #Isa 28:21| only --unless the place which it designates is identical with the Baal-perazim mentioned as the scene of one of David's victories over the Philistines, which was in the valley of Rephaim, south of Jerusalem, on the road to Bethlehem.

PER'AZIM (breaches), a mountain upon which divine vengeance would be manifested. Isa 28:21. It is not elsewhere mentioned in Scripture, but has been regarded as identical with Baal-perazim of 2 Sam 5:20 and 1 Chr 14:8-17, where David won his victory over the Philistines. The latter place was in the valley of Rephaim. See Baal-per-azim.

Isaiah 28:21, "Jehovah shall rise up as in Mount Perazim," namely, as He broke forth as waters do, and made a "breach" (Perazim) on David's foes at Baal Perazim by the valley of' Rephaim (2 Samuel 5:20). (See BAAL PERAZIM.) So utter and sudden was the rout that the Philistines left their idols behind, and David burned them (1 Chronicles 14:11). "Mount" thus connected with "Baal" implies it was an idolatrous high place. Isaiah's reference to it as type of Jehovah's most sudden and overwhelming judgments shows how much heavier a blow it was than would appear from the incidental notice of it in 1 Samuel and 1 Chronicles. Josephus (Ant. 7:4, section 1) says not only the Philistines but "all Syria and Phoenicia, and many other warlike nations beside," made the attack on David.