4.6.3. David Leaves the Fortress and Breaks through the Enemy Siege

Sa mu el 302 later we read that both armies were engaged in a battle on ( Mount ) Baal - Perazim which is an elevated hill ( Isa 28 : 21 ; see Garsiel 2000 : The answer is as we explained above : the narrator in Samuel, ? ) 159 followed later by the one in Chronicles, describes two different stages of the same campaign . Now we read about the second stage, which ends the first battle . David’s assault takes place on Mount Baal - Perazim . Several suggestions offered by scholars for the identification of the place name Mount Baal - Perazim ( for a survey, see Garsiel 2000 : —all of which are rather far from the fortress of Zion . It is ) 160 – 159 clear that David is in a hurry to break through the closer Philistine camp to the fortress which dominates the highway to Hebron, lest his getting out of the fortress will be detected by scouts who may run alerting other Philistine forces on the other sides of the fortress to hurry to the battlefield . I have supported the identification of ( ...  אל הספר
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