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1 Samuel 5 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Capture of the Ark Provokes God

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:1 -

Now the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:2 - Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon, and placed it beside Dagon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:3 - When the Ashdodites got up early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:4 - But when they got up early the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD. And the head of Dagon and both palms of his hands were cut off on the threshold; [fn]only the torso of Dagon was left.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:5 - For that reason neither the priests of Dagon nor any who enter Dagon’s house step on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:6 -

Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the Ashdodites, and He made them feel devastated and struck them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territories.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:7 - When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, because His hand is severe on us and on Dagon our god.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:8 - So they sent word and gathered all the governors of the Philistines to them, and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” And they said, “Have the ark of the God of Israel [fn]brought to Gath.” So they took the ark of the God of Israel away.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:9 - After they had taken it away, the hand of the LORD was against the city, creating a very great panic; and He struck the people of the city, from the young to the old, so that tumors broke out on them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:10 - So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And as the ark of God came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel to [fn]us, to kill [fn]us and [fn]our people!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:11 - Therefore they sent word and gathered all the governors of the Philistines, and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel and let it return to its own place, so that it will not kill [fn]us and [fn]our people!” For there was a deadly panic throughout the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:12 - And the people who did not die were struck with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
NASB20 Footnotes
As in ancient versions; MT only Dagon
Lit turn to
Lit me
Lit me
Lit my
Lit me
Lit my
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