1 Samuel 5:4-6

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⁴But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. This time, Dagon’s head and both of his hands were broken off and lying on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso remained.^[a] ⁵That is why, still today, the priests of Dagon and everyone who enters the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on Dagon’s threshold.

⁶The Lord’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod.^(A) He terrified^(B) the people of Ashdod and its territory and afflicted them with tumors.^[b]^[c]^(C)

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Footnotes

5:4 LXX; Hb reads Only Dagon remained on it
5:6 LXX adds He brought up mice against them, and they swarmed in their ships. Then mice went up into the land and there was a mortal panic in the city.
5:6 Perhaps bubonic plague

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