Judges 16:23
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The Death of Samson
23 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to (A)Dagon their god and to rejoice, and they said, “Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand.”
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Proverbs 24:17
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17 (A)Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,
1 Samuel 5:2-5
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2 Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside (A)Dagon. 3 And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, (B)Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place. 4 But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord, (C)and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was left to him. 5 This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon (D)do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.
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1 Corinthians 8:4-5
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4 Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that (A)“an idol has no real existence,” and that (B)“there is no God but one.” 5 For although there may be (C)so-called gods in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many “gods” and many “lords”—
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Romans 1:23-25
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23 and (A)exchanged the glory of (B)the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore (C)God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to (D)the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for (E)a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, (F)who is blessed forever! Amen.
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Micah 4:5
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5 For (A)all the peoples walk
each in the name of its god,
but (B)we will walk in the name of the Lord our God
forever and ever.
Jeremiah 2:11
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11 (A)Has a nation changed its gods,
(B)even though they are no gods?
But my people (C)have changed their glory
for (D)that which does not profit.
Psalm 35:15-16
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15 But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered;
they gathered together against me;
(A)wretches whom I did not know
tore at me without ceasing;
16 like profane mockers at a feast,[a]
they (B)gnash at me with their teeth.
Footnotes
- Psalm 35:16 The meaning of the Hebrew phrase is uncertain
Job 30:9-10
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9 “And now I have become their (A)song;
I am (B)a byword to them.
10 They (C)abhor me; they keep aloof from me;
they do not hesitate to (D)spit at the sight of me.
1 Chronicles 10:10
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10 And they put his armor in the temple of their gods and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
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1 Corinthians 10:20
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20 No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice (A)they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.
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