Therefore the Priests of Dagon, and all that come into Dagon’s house, [a]tread not on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, unto this day.

But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and destroyed them, and smote them with the (A)emerods, both Ashdod, and the coasts thereof.

And when the men of Ashdod saw this, they said, Let not the Ark of the God of Israel abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us and upon Dagon our god.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 5:5 Thus instead of acknowledging the true God by this miracle, they fall to a further superstition.

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