¹² And when they left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.

^20 (A)Then he took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder; and he scattered it on the water and made the children of Israel drink it.

¹⁸ and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were ^(A)not gods, but ^(B)the work of men’s hands—wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.

² When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of ^(A)Dagon^[a] and set it by Dagon. ³ And when the people of Ashdod arose early in the morning, there was Dagon, ^(B)fallen on its face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and ^(C)set it in its place again. ⁴ And when they arose early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on its face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. ^(D)The head of Dagon and both the palms of its hands were broken off on the threshold; only ^[b]Dagon’s torso was left of it. ⁵ Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon’s house ^(E)tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

⁶ But the ^(F)hand of the Lord was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and He ^(G)ravaged them and struck them with ^(H)tumors,^[c] both Ashdod and its ^(I)territory.

²⁵ You shall burn the carved images of their gods with fire; you shall not ^(A)covet^[a] the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be snared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

⁵ But thus you shall deal with them: you shall ^(A)destroy their altars, and break down their sacred pillars, and cut down their ^[a]wooden images, and burn their carved images with fire.

¹² ‘For I ^(A)will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and ^(B)against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: ^(C)I am the Lord.