1SA-5:1  And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it

from

Ebenezer unto Ashdod.

1SA-5:2  When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought

it

into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

1SA-5:3  And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow,

behold,

Dagon [was] fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of

the

LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

1SA-5:4  And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold,

Dagon [was] fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of

the

LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands

[were] cut

off upon the threshold; only [the stump of] Dagon was left to

him.

1SA-5:5  Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that

come

into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod

unto

this day.

1SA-5:6  But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod,

and

he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, [even] Ashdod

and the

coasts thereof.

1SA-5:7  And when the men of Ashdod saw that [it was] so, they

said,

The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his

hand is

sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.

1SA-5:8  They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the

Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark

of the

God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of

Israel be

carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of

Israel

about [thither].

1SA-5:9  And it was [so], that, after they had carried it about,

the

hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great

destruction:

and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they

had

emerods in their secret parts.

1SA-5:10  Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it

came to

pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried

out,

saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to

us, to

slay us and our people.

1SA-5:11  So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the

Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel,

and let

it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our

people: for

there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand

of

God was very heavy there.

1SA-5:12  And the men that died not were smitten with the

emerods: and

the cry of the city went up to heaven.



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