1 Samuel 5:4 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

1 Samuel 5:4

2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of ^aDagon and set it by Dagon.

3 And when the people of Ashdod arose early in the morning, there was Dagon, ^afallen on its face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and ^bset 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. ^aThe head of Dagon and both the palms of its hands were broken off on the threshold; only¹ Dagon’s torso was left of it.

5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon’s house ^atread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.

6 But the ^ahand of the Lord was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and He ^bravaged them and struck them with ^ctumors, both Ashdod and its ^dterritory.

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DAGON FALLS DOWN. (I Samuel 5:3-5)

they of Ashdod arose early—They were filled with consternation when they found the object of their stupid veneration prostrate before the symbol of the divine presence. Though set up, it fell again, and lay in a state of complete mutilation; its head and arms, severed from the trunk, were lying in distant and separate places, as if violently cast off, and only the fishy part remained. The degradation of their idol, though concealed by the priests on the former occasion, was now more manifest and infamous. It lay in the attitude of a vanquished enemy and a suppliant, and this picture of humiliation significantly declared the superiority of the God of Israel.

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