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1 Samuel 5 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:1 - And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Abenezer to Azotus.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:2 - And the Philistines took the ark of the Lord, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:3 - And the people of Azotus rose early, and entered into the house of Dagon; and looked, and behold, Dagon had fallen on his face before the ark of the Lord: and they lifted up Dagon, and set him in his place. And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians, and he plagued them, and he smote them in their secret parts, Azotus and her coasts.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:4 - And it came to pass when they rose early in the morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off each before the threshold, and both the wrists of his hands had fallen on the floor of the porch; only the stump of Dagon was left.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:5 - Therefore the priests of Dagon, and every one that enters into the house of Dagon, do not tread upon the threshold of the house of Dagon in Azotus until this day, for they step over.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:6 - And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon Azotus, and he brought evil upon them, and it burst out upon them into the ships, and mice sprang up in the midst of their country, and there was a [fn]great and indiscriminate mortality in the city.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:7 - And the men of Azotus saw that it was so, and they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us, for his hand is [fn]heavy upon us and upon Dagon our god.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:8 - And they send and gather the lords of the Philistines to them, and say, What shall we do to the ark of the God of Israel? and the Gittites say, Let the ark of God come over to us; and the ark of the God of Israel came to Geth.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:9 - And it came to pass after it went about to Geth, that the hand of the Lord comes upon the city, a very great confusion; and he smote the men of the city small and great, and smote them in their secret parts: and the Gittites made to themselves images of emerods.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:10 - And they send away the ark of God to Ascalon; and it came to pass when the ark of God went into Ascalon, that the men of Ascalon cried out, saying, Why have ye brought back the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:11 - And they send and gather the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it lodge in its place; and let it not slay us and our people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:12 - For there was a very great confusion in all the city, when the ark of the God of Israel entered there; and those who lived and [fn]died not were smitten with emerods; and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
BES Footnotes
Gr. great confusion of death.
Gr. hard.
Gr. dead.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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