1 Samuel · 12 verses
1 Samuel 5
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Dagon is put back on his feet after falling before the ark, only to be found down again the next morning with his head and hands broken off, leaving the temple with a threshold nobody will tread.
Dagon and the thresholdvv. 1–5
The Philistines carry the ark from Ebenezer into Dagon’s temple in Ashdod and set it beside the statue. By morning Dagon is face-down before it, which the people repair by returning him to his place. The following morning brings a more decisive arrangement: Dagon is again fallen, his head and hands lying on the threshold, with only the torso remaining. The threshold consequently acquires a remarkable solemnity, for the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple refuse to step on it.
The ark is passed alongvv. 6–12
Ashdod is then afflicted with tumors, and its men conclude that the ark must not remain there. The rulers of the Philistines send it to Gath, where the same heavy hand brings confusion and tumors upon young and old. It is sent onward to Ekron, whose people greet the arrival with the alarming suspicion that the ark has been brought to kill them and their people. The rulers are summoned again; the city is full of deadly confusion, those who survive bear tumors, and the outcry rises to heaven.
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1 Sam 5:1After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,
1 Sam 5:2carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.
1 Sam 5:3When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.
1 Sam 5:4But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.
1 Sam 5:5That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.
1 Sam 5:6Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
1 Sam 5:7And when the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us, because His hand is heavy upon us and upon our god Dagon.”
1 Sam 5:8So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and asked, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” “It must be moved to Gath,” they replied. So they carried away the ark of the God of Israel.
1 Sam 5:9But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.
1 Sam 5:10So they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the God of Israel in order to kill us and our people!”
1 Sam 5:11Then the Ekronites called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was very heavy upon it.
1 Sam 5:12Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
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- 3Isaiah 19:1This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.
- 3Isaiah 46:1–2Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
- 5Zephaniah 1:9On that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill the house of their master with violence and deceit.
- 61 Samuel 5:11Then the Ekronites called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was very heavy upon it.
- 91 Samuel 5:6Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
- 4Micah 1:7All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
- 6Exodus 9:3then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.
- 6Acts 13:11Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and for a time you will be blind and unable to see the light of the sun.” Immediately mist and darkness came over him, and he groped about, seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
- 6Deuteronomy 28:27The LORD will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, with tumors and scabs and itch from which you cannot be cured.
- 6Psalms 32:4For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah
- 91 Samuel 7:13So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped invading the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
- 9Deuteronomy 2:15Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.
- 11 Samuel 7:12Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
- 2Judges 16:23Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”
- 3Isaiah 46:7They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.
- 7Exodus 12:33And in order to send them out of the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!”
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