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Introduction:
With the death of Saul, David is no longer on the run.
He was quickly received as king over his own tribe, Judah.
And when Ishbosheth was assassinated, David was received by the remaining tribes as king over all Israel.
He then wasted no time in setting up his capital in the Jebusite city of Jerusalem.
The Jebusites thought even their blind and lame idols could defend the city.
But David took the city.
And he set up his capital there, calling it the City of David.
It was a great location for his capital city.
It was naturally defended with hills and valleys and had a water system in the case of seige.
Hiram, the king of Tyre supplied wood, and workmen to help build a palace for David.
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Very quickly upon learning of David’s ascension to the throne, the Philistines went up against David.
But David sought the Lord and the LORD told him he would have victory.
So, David went out to meet the Philistines first in Baal Perazim and then in the Valley of Rephaim.
And the Philistines were driven back from Gibeon … the land they had taken in their victory over Saul.
They were driven back to the place they dwelt before.
David and Philistines MAP
We’ve seen the Philistines as part of the biblical narrative for a while now beginning in Judges but most prominently in the histories of Saul and David.
The Philistines were a warlike people who, migrated by sea from the Aegean and arrived on the southern coast of Israel somewhere around the early 12th century B.C.
In Hebrew, they were called Pelishtim and they dwelt in Eretz Pelishtim which is also called Peleshet (Philistia).
Their exact origin is uncertain.
However it is thought that they were displaced by an ethnic upheaval in the Aegean area in the later part of the 13th century B.C.
At that time many peoples on the Greek mainland and in the Aegean Islands as well as eastern Anatolia were given cause to relocate.
Map of Aegean
This great migration of people became a military advance across the eastern Mediterranean.
They brought an end to the Hittite empire in the area of modern day Turkey and ultimately reached the coasts of Phoenicia, Canaan, and Egypt.
In fact, the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses III fought two groups of these migrating peoples … the Tjekker and the Philistines.
His victory over them was carved on the walls of his funerary temple.
After he defeated them, Ramesses settled the Philistines along the southern coast of Canaan.
The Bible uses the term Philistines as early as .
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