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1 Samuel 5:2
1 Samuel 5:2 is verse 2 of 1 Samuel chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.
Literally set it beside Dagon
King James Version
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.
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1 Samuel 5:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 After 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.
3 When 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.
4 But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Judges 16:23Now 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 10:10They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.
Daniel 5:2Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king could drink from them, along with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
Daniel 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.
Habakkuk 1:11Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”
Habakkuk 1:16Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.