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The First
Book of Samuel 5
And the Philistines took the ark of God, and carried
it from the Stone of help into Azotus.
And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought
it into the temple of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
And when the Azotians arose early the next day, behold
Dagon lay upon his face on the ground before the ark
of the Lord: and they took Dagon, and set him again
in his place.
And the next day again, when they rose in the morning,
they found Dagon lying upon his face on the earth before
the ark of the Lord: and the head of Dagon, and both
the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold:
And only the stump of Dagon remained in its place. For
this cause neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that
go into the temple tread on the threshold of Dagon in
Azotus unto this day.
And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the Azotians,
and he destroyed them, and afflicted Azotus and the
coasts thereof with emerods. And in the villages and
fields in the midst of that country, there came forth
a multitude of mice, and there was the confusion of
a great mortality in the city.
And the men of Azotus seeing this kind of plague, said:
The ark of the God of Israel shall not stay with us:
for his hand is heavy upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
And sending, they gathered together all the lords of
the Philistines to them, and said: What shall we do
with the ark of the God of Israel? And the Gethrites
answered: Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried
about. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel
about.
And while they were carrying it about, the band of the
Lord came upon every city with an exceeding great slaughter:
and he smote the men of every city, both small and great,
and they had emerods in their secret parts. And the
Gethrites consulted together, and made themselves seats
of skins.
Therefore they sent the ark of God into Accaron. And
when the ark of God was come into Accaron, the Accaronites
cried out, saying: They have brought the ark of the
God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people.
They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords
of the Philistines: and they said: Send away the ark
of the God of Israel, and let it return into its own
place, and not kill us and our people.
For there was the fear of death in every city, and the
hand of God was exceeding heavy. The men also that did
not die, were afflicted with the emerods: and the cry
of every city went up to heaven.
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