2 Samuel 5:21 (BSB)

There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.

From 2 Samuel 5. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on 2 Samuel 5:21

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on 2 Samuel 5:17-25: The particular service for which David was raised up was to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, Sa2 3:18. This therefore divine Providence, in the first place, gives him an opportunity of accomplishing. Two great victories obtained over the Philistines we have here an account of, by which David not only balanced the disgrace and retrieved the loss Israel had sustained in...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 2 Samuel 5:21: And when David inquired of the Lord,.... For though he had success before, and got the victory, he would not engage again with them without having the mind and will of God, on whom he knew victory alone depended: he said, thou shalt not go up; that is, directly, and in a straight line: but fetch a compass behind them; and get to the rear...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on 2 Samuel 5:21: there they left their images--probably their "lares" or household deities, which they had brought into the field to fight for them. They were burnt as ordained by law (Deu 7:5).
• Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on 2 Samuel 5:21: They left their images - It was the custom of most nations to carry their gods with them to battle: in imitation of this custom the Israelites once took the ark and lost it in the field; see Sa1 4:10, Sa1 4:11.