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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>1 Samuel 5 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_samuel/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_samuel/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > 1 Samuel 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_samuel/4.htm" title="1 Samuel 4">◄</a> 1 Samuel 5 <a href="../1_samuel/6.htm" title="1 Samuel 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/1_samuel/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Philistines and the Ark</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was left to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The hand of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was heavy against the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And when the men of Ashdod saw how things were, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for his hand is hard against us and against Dagon our god.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They answered, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around to Gath.” So they brought the ark of the God of Israel there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But after they had brought it around, the hand of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But as soon as the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, “They have brought around to us the ark of the God of Israel to kill us and our people.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>The men who did not die were struck with tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. All rights reserved.<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) is adapted from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. 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