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1 Samuel 5

Chapter 5 in 30 seconds

The Philistines put the ark in the temple of their god Dagon. Next morning, Dagon is face down on the floor. They stand him back up. Next morning, Dagon is face down again, and this time his head and hands are broken off. Then tumors break out in every city that keeps the ark. Nobody wants it.

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The Ark Afflicts the Philistines

1After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod, 2carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.

  • 1SA 5:1[DEMONIC]Dagon falls on his face before the ark of God

3When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of Yahweh. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.

  • 1SA 5:3[MIRACLE]Dagon falls on his face before the ark

4But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of Yahweh, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained. 5That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and all who enter the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the threshold.

6Now the hand of Yahweh was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors. 7And when the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us, because His hand is heavy upon us and upon our god Dagon.”

  • 1SA 5:6[MIRACLE]Yahweh strikes the people of Ashdod with tumors

8So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and asked, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?”

“It must be moved to Gath,” they replied. So they carried away the ark of the God of Israel.

9But after they had moved the ark to Gath, Yahweh’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.

10So they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the God of Israel in order to kill us and our people!”

11Then the Ekronites called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!”

For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was very heavy upon it. 12Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.

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