Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor all who enter Dagon’s house (A)tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

Now (B)the hand of the Lord was heavy on the Ashdodites, and (C)He ravaged them and smote them with (D)tumors, both Ashdod and its territories.

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That is why to this day neither the priests of Dagon nor any others who enter Dagon’s temple at Ashdod step on the threshold.(A)

The Lord’s hand(B) was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity; he brought devastation(C) on them and afflicted them with tumors.[a](D)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 5:6 Hebrew; Septuagint and Vulgate tumors. And rats appeared in their land, and there was death and destruction throughout the city