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But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon again, fallen facedown on the ground before the Lord’s chest—and this time Dagon’s head along with both his hands were cut off and lying on the doorstep! Only Dagon’s body[a] was left intact. That’s why to this day Dagon’s priests or anyone else who enters his temple in Ashdod doesn’t step on the threshold.

The Lord’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod: God terrified them and struck them in Ashdod and its surroundings with tumors.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 5:4 Cf LXX
  2. 1 Samuel 5:6 Kethib; Qere hemorrhoids (cf Deut 28:27); also in 5:9, 12

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