Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Then they carried the ark into Dagon’s temple and set it beside Dagon. New Living Translation They carried the Ark of God into the temple of Dagon and placed it beside an idol of Dagon. English Standard Version Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon. Berean Standard Bible carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue. King James Bible When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. New King James Version When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon. New American Standard Bible Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon, and placed it beside Dagon. NASB 1995 Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon. NASB 1977 Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. Legacy Standard Bible Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon. Amplified Bible They took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it beside [the image of] Dagon [their chief idol]. Christian Standard Bible brought it into the temple of Dagon and placed it next to his statue. Holman Christian Standard Bible brought it into the temple of Dagon and placed it next to his statue. American Standard Version And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And the Philistines took the Ark of God and they brought it to the house of Dagun, and they stood it on the side of Dagun Brenton Septuagint Translation And the Philistines took the ark of the Lord, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. Contemporary English Version They brought it into the temple of their god Dagon and put it next to the statue of Dagon, which they worshiped. Douay-Rheims Bible And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the temple of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. English Revised Version And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. GOD'S WORD® Translation They brought it into the temple of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon. Good News Translation took it into the temple of their god Dagon, and set it up beside his statue. International Standard Version Then the Philistines took the Ark of God, brought it to the temple of Dagon, and placed it beside Dagon. JPS Tanakh 1917 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. Literal Standard Version and the Philistines take the Ark of God and bring it into the house of Dagon, and set it near Dagon. Majority Standard Bible carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue. New American Bible They then took the ark of God and brought it into the temple of Dagon, placing it beside Dagon. NET Bible The Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the temple of Dagon, where they positioned it beside Dagon. New Revised Standard Version then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon. New Heart English Bible The Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. Webster's Bible Translation When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. World English Bible The Philistines took God’s ark, and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon. Young's Literal Translation and the Philistines take the ark of God and bring it into the house of Dagon, and set it near Dagon. Additional Translations ... Context The Ark Afflicts the Philistines1After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod, 2 carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue. 3When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.… Cross References Judges 16:23 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, "Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands." 1 Chronicles 10:8 The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. Treasury of Scripture When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. of Dagon Judges 16:23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand. 1 Chronicles 10:10 And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon. Daniel 5:2,23 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein… Jump to Previous Ark Carried Dagon Dagon's House Philistines Side TempleJump to Next Ark Carried Dagon Dagon's House Philistines Side Temple1 Samuel 5 1. The Philistines having brought the ark into Ashdod, set it in the house Dagon3. Dagon is smitten down and cut and cut in pieces, 5. and they of Ashdod smitten with tumors 8. So God deals with them of Gath, when it was brought thither 10. and so with them of Ekron, when it was brought thither (2) They brought it into the house of Dagon.--The conquerors, we are told, in the meantime, with triumph, carried the captured Ark from the battle-field to Ashdod. This was one of the capital cities of the five Philistine princes. It is built on a hill close to the Mediterranean Sea, and was in after days known as Azotus (Acts 8:40). In Ashdod they placed it in the temple of the popular Philistine god, Dagon. This was their vengeance for the slaughter of the 3,000 Philistine worshippers in the temple of the same deity at Gaza, not many years before, by the blind Hebrew champion Samson. The princes and Philistine people well remembered how the blind hero on that awful day, when 3,000 perished in the house of Dagon when he with his superhuman strength forced the great temple pillars down, called on the name of the God of Israel, whom they in their idol-trained hearts associated with the golden Ark. "This only hope relieves me, that the strife With me hath end, all the contest now 'Twixt God and Dagon; Dagon hath presumed, Me overthrown, to enter lists with God, His deity comparing and preferring Before the God of Abraham. He, be sure, Will not connive or linger thus provoked, . . . Verse 2. - When the Philistines, etc. The words are exactly the same as those in ver. 1, viz. "And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it," marking the simplicity of ancient narrative. Dagon is derived by Philo from dagan, "corn," and is explained by him as an emblem of the earth's fertility; but as the shape of this national deity of the Philistines was certainly that of a man to the waist, ending in the body and tail of a fish, the true derivation is doubtless that from dag, "a fish." It represented, however, not so much the sea, on which the Philistines trafficked, as the fruitfulness of water, which in the East is looked upon as the active principle of life (comp. Genesis 1:20). In one of the sculptures brought from Khorsabad there is a representation of a battle between the Assyrians and the inhabitants of the Syrian sea coast, and in it there is a figure, the upper part of which is a bearded man with a crown, while from the waist downwards it has the shape of a fish (Layard's 'Nineveh,' 2:466). Moreover, it is swimming in the sea, and is surrounded by a multitude of marine creatures. Doubtless this figure represents Dagon, who, nevertheless, is not to be regarded as a sea god, like Neptune; but as the fish is the product of water, he is the symbol of nature's reproductive energy. Together with Dagon a female deity was commonly worshipped, called Atergatis, half woman and half fish, whose temple is mentioned in 2 Macc. 12:26. In the margin there she is explained as being Venus; but the ideas have only this in common - that Venus also, as rising out of the sea, symbolises life as springing out of water. As Dagon had a temple also at Gaza (Judges 16:23), and at the other cities of Philistia (Jerome on Isaiah 46:1), he was evidently the chief deity of the nation, and the solemn depositing of the ark in his temple, and by Dagon, - literally, "at his side," - was intended as a public demonstration that the God of the Israelites was inferior to, and had been vanquished by, the national deity of the Philistines.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew carried it intoוַיָּבִ֥יאוּ (way·yā·ḇî·’ū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go the temple בֵּ֣ית (bêṯ) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 1004: A house of Dagon, דָּג֑וֹן (dā·ḡō·wn) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 1712: Dagon -- a god and an idol of the Philistines and set וַיַּצִּ֥יגוּ (way·yaṣ·ṣî·ḡū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 3322: To place permanently it אֹת֖וֹ (’ō·ṯōw) Direct object marker | third person masculine singular Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case beside אֵ֥צֶל (’ê·ṣel) Preposition Strong's 681: A joining together, proximity [his statue]. דָּגֽוֹן׃ (dā·ḡō·wn) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 1712: Dagon -- a god and an idol of the Philistines Links 1 Samuel 5:2 NIV1 Samuel 5:2 NLT 1 Samuel 5:2 ESV 1 Samuel 5:2 NASB 1 Samuel 5:2 KJV 1 Samuel 5:2 BibleApps.com 1 Samuel 5:2 Biblia Paralela 1 Samuel 5:2 Chinese Bible 1 Samuel 5:2 French Bible 1 Samuel 5:2 Catholic Bible OT History: 1 Samuel 5:2 The Philistines took the ark of God (1Sa iSam 1 Sam i sa) |
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