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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</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/bsb/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="/bmc//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="/1_samuel/">1 Samuel</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 align="center" id="jump2"><a href="/niv/1_samuel/5.htm">NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/1_samuel/5.htm">NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/1_samuel/5.htm">ESV</a> • <a href="/kjv/1_samuel/5.htm">KJV</a> • <a href="/nkjv/1_samuel/5.htm">NKJ</a> • <a href="/nasb/1_samuel/5.htm">NAS</a></div><br /><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="1%" valign="top">BSB</td><td width="99%" valign="top" align="right"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/5.htm" style="font-weight:normal" title="Parallel Chapters">Parallel Chapters ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Ark Afflicts the Philistines<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="4"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>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. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>That 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. <A name="7"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And 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.” <A name="9"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and asked, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” <p class="reg">“It must be moved to Gath,” they replied. So they carried away the ark of the God of Israel. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’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. <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So 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!” <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then the Ekronites assembled 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<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> kill us and our people!” <p class="reg"> For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was heavy upon it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Literally <i>set it beside Dagon</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Hebrew; LXX and Vulgate include <i>And rats appeared in their land, and death and destruction were throughout the city.</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Or <i>He will not</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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