1 Samuel 5
5
The Ark in Ashdod and Ekron
1The Philistines had captured the ark of God. They took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. 2They carried the ark into the temple of their god Dagon. They set it down beside the statue of Dagon. 3The people of Ashdod got up early the next day. They saw the statue of Dagon. There it was, lying on the ground! It had fallen on its face in front of the ark of the Lord. So they picked up the statue of Dagon. They put it back in its place. 4But the following morning when they got up, they saw the statue of Dagon. There it was, lying on the ground again! It had fallen on its face in front of the ark of the Lord. Its head and hands had been broken off. Only the body of the statue was left. Its head and hands were lying in the doorway of the temple. 5That’s why to this day no one steps on the bottom part of the doorway of Dagon’s temple at Ashdod. Not even the priests of Dagon step there.
6The Lord’s power was against the people of Ashdod and the settlements near it. He destroyed them. He made them suffer with growths in their bodies. 7The people of Ashdod saw what was happening. They said, “The ark of the god of Israel must not stay here with us. His power is against us and against our god Dagon.” 8So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines. They asked them, “What should we do with the ark of the god of Israel?”
The rulers answered, “Have the ark moved to Gath.” So they moved it.
9But after the people of Ashdod had moved the ark, the Lord’s power was against Gath. That threw its people into a great panic. The Lord made them break out with growths in their bodies. It happened to young people and old people alike. 10So the ark of God was sent to Ekron.
As the ark was entering Ekron, the people of the city cried out. They shouted, “They’ve brought the ark of the god of Israel to us. They want to kill us and our people.” 11So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines. They said, “Send the ark of the god of Israel away. Let it go back to its own place. If you don’t, it will kill us and our people.” The death of so many people had filled the city with panic. God’s power was against the city. 12Those who didn’t die suffered with growths in their bodies. The people of Ekron cried out to heaven for help.
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1 Samuel 5
5
The Ark of the Covenant among the Philistines
1Now the Philistines had captured#Or “taken” the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. 2Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the temple of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon. 3When the Ashdodites got up early the next morning, there was#Literally “look” Dagon fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh! So they took Dagon and returned him to his place. 4When they got up early in the morning the next day, there was#Literally “look” Dagon fallen again with his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh! The head of Dagon and the palms of his two hands were cut off, lying at#Hebrew “to” the threshold; only the body#The phrase may suggest that only the “fish” part of Dagon was left of Dagon was left. 5(Therefore the priests of Dagon and all who come into the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod until this very day.)
6Now the hand of Yahweh was heavy against the Ashdodites and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors,#The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads “boils”; the reading tradition (Qere) has “tumors” both in Ashdod and its territories. 7The men of Ashdod saw that it was so, and they said, “The ark of the God of Israel should not remain with us, because his hand is harsh on us and on Dagon our god!” 8So they sent and gathered all the rulers of the Philistines to them, and they asked, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” And they said, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around toward Gath.” So they moved the ark of the God of Israel to Gath.
9After they moved it, the hand of Yahweh was against the city, causing a very great confusion, and he struck the men of the city from the youngest to the oldest,#Literally “from small up to great” causing tumors#The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads “boils”; the reading tradition (Qere) has “tumors” to break out on them. 10So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But when the ark of God came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have brought around the ark of the God of Israel to kill us and our#Hebrew “me and my” people!” 11So they sent and gathered all the rulers of the Philistines, and they said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel and let it return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people.” For a deadly confusion#Literally “a confusion of death”; indicates a genitive of attribute was throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there. 12The men who did not die were struck with the tumors,#The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads “boils”; the reading tradition (Qere) has “tumors” so that the cry of the city for help went up to heaven.
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