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[1]Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God, and they brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod. |
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[2]And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. |
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[3]And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of π€π€π€
π€. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again. |
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[4]And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of π€π€π€
π€; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands lay cut off upon threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left to him. |
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[5]Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day. |
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[6]But the hand of π€π€π€
π€ was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and He destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the borders thereof. |
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[7]And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said: 'The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us; for His hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.' |
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[8]They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said: 'What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?' And they answered: 'Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath.' And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither. |
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[9]And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of π€π€π€
π€ was against the city with a very great discomfiture; and He smote the men of the city, both small and great, and emerods broke out upon them. |
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[10]So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying: 'They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.' |
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[11]They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said: 'Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its own place, that it slay us not, and our people'; for there was a deadly discomfiture throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there. |
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[12]And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods; and the cry of the city went up to heaven. |
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