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So they lifted it up and put it back in its place. </span><span class="v9_5_4"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.5.4" class="v9_5_4">4</span>Early the following morning they saw that the statue had again fallen down in front of the Covenant Box. This time its head and both its arms were broken off and were lying in the doorway; only the body was left. ( </span><span class="v9_5_5"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.5.5" class="v9_5_5">5</span>That is why even today the priests of Dagon and all his worshipers in Ashdod step over that place and do not walk on it.)</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_5_6"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.5.6" class="v9_5_6">6</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> punished the people of Ashdod severely and terrified them. He punished them and the people in the surrounding territory by causing them to have tumors.<a href="#fn" id="link_1Sam.5.6!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v9_5_7"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.5.7" class="v9_5_7">7</span>When they saw what was happening, they said, “The God of Israel is punishing us and our god Dagon. We can't let the Covenant Box stay here any longer.” </span><span class="v9_5_8"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.5.8" class="v9_5_8">8</span>So they sent messengers and called together all five of the Philistine kings and asked them, “What shall we do with the Covenant Box of the God of Israel?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v9_5_8">“Take it over to Gath,” they answered; so they took it to Gath, another Philistine city. </span><span class="v9_5_9"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.5.9" class="v9_5_9">9</span>But after it arrived there, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> punished that city too and caused a great panic. He punished them with tumors which developed in all the people of the city, young and old alike. </span><span class="v9_5_10"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.5.10" class="v9_5_10">10</span>So they sent the Covenant Box to Ekron, another Philistine city; but when it arrived there, the people cried out, “They have brought the Covenant Box of the God of Israel here, in order to kill us all!” </span><span class="v9_5_11"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.5.11" class="v9_5_11">11</span>So again they sent for all the Philistine kings and said, “Send the Covenant Box of Israel back to its own place, so that it won't kill us and our families.” There was panic throughout the city because God was punishing them so severely. </span><span class="v9_5_12"><span class="reftext" id="1Sam.5.12" class="v9_5_12">12</span>Even those who did not die developed tumors and the people cried out to their gods for help.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">5.6: </char><char style="fk" closed="false">tumors: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The association of tumors with an abundance of mice suggests that this was a case of bubonic plague (see 6.5).</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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