Chapter 5

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took 1Sam 4:11, 1Sam 4:17-18, 1Sam 4:22; Ps 78:61

Ebenezer 1Sam 4:1, 1Sam 7:12

Ashdod Ashdod, called Azotus by the Greeks, was one of the five satrapies of the Philistines, and a place of great strength and consequence. It was situated near the Mediterranean, between Askelon and Jamnia, thirty-four miles north of Gaza, according to Diodorus Siculus, and the Antonine and Jerusalem Itineraries. It is now called Shdood; and Dr. Richardson says they neither saw nor heard of any ruins there. "The ground," he observes, "around Ashdod is beautifully undulating, but not half stocked with cattle. The site of the town is on the summit of a grassy hill; and, if we are to believe historians, was anciently as strong as it was beautiful." Josh 11:22; Acts 8:40, Azotus


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of Dagon Judg 16:23; 1Chr 10:10; Dan 5:2, Dan 5:23; Hab 1:11, Hab 1:16


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Dagon was Exod 12:12; Ps 97:7; Isa 19:1, Isa 46:1-2; Zeph 2:11; Mark 3:11; Luke 10:18-20; 2Cor 6:14-16

set him Isa 19:1, Isa 40:20, Isa 41:7, Isa 44:17-20, Isa 46:1-2, Isa 46:7; Jer 10:8


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the head Isa 2:18-19, Isa 27:9; Jer 10:11, Jer 50:2; Ezek 6:4-6; Dan 11:8; Mic 1:7

of Dagon The name of this idol, Dagon, signifies a fish, and it is supposed to be the Atergatis of the Syrians, corruptly called Derceto by the Greeks, which had the upper part like a woman, and the lower part like a fish; as Lucian informs us:

Δερκετους δε ειδος εν Φοινικη εθεησαμην, θεημα ξενον; ημισεη μεν γυνη; το δε οκοσον εκ μηρων ες ακρους ποδας, ιχθυος ουρη αποτεινεται. "In Phoenicia I saw the image of Derceto; a strange sight truly! For she had the half of a woman, but from the thighs downward a fish's tail."

Diodorus (1. ii.) describing the same idol, as represented at Askelon, says, το μεν προσωπον εχει γυναικος, το δἀλλο σωμα παν ιχθυος. "It had the head of a woman, but all the rest of the body a fish's."

Probably Horace alludes to this idol, in De Art. Poet. 4; Desinat in piscem, mulier formosa superne." "The upper part a handsome woman, and the lower part a fish." If such was the form of this idol, then everything that was human was broken off from what resembled a fish.

the stump or, the fishy part


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neither Ps 115:4-7, Ps 135:15-18

tread Josh 5:15; Zeph 1:9


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the hand 1Sam 5:7, 1Sam 5:11; Exod 9:3; Ps 32:4; Acts 13:11

emerods 1Sam 5:9, 1Sam 5:11, 1Sam 6:5; Deut 28:27; Job 31:3; Ps 78:66

thereof The LXX and Vulgate add:

Και μεσον της χωρας αυτης ανεφυησαν μυες και εγενετο συγχυσις θανατου μεγαλη εν τη πολει.

(Et ebullierunt ville et agri in medio regionis illius, et nati sunt mures; et facta est confusio mortis magne in civitate).

"And [the cities and fields in Vulg.] the midst of that region produced mice; [Vulg. burst up, and mice were produced;] and there was the confusion of a great death in the city." 1Sam 6:4-5


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saw 1Sam 4:8; Exod 8:8, Exod 8:28, Exod 9:28, Exod 10:7, Exod 12:33

The ark 1Sam 6:20; 2Sam 6:9; 1Chr 13:11-13, 1Chr 15:13

upon Dagon our god 1Sam 5:3-4; Jer 46:25, Jer 48:7


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What shall Zech 12:3

Gath 1Sam 17:4; Amos 6:2


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the hand 1Sam 5:6, 1Sam 7:13, 1Sam 12:15; Deut 2:15; Amos 5:19, Amos 9:1-4

with a very 1Sam 5:11

and they had emerods 1Sam 5:6, 1Sam 6:4-5, 1Sam 6:11; Ps 78:66


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God to Ekron Josh 15:45; Judg 1:18; 2Kgs 1:2; Amos 1:8

us, to slay us and our people Heb. me, to slay me and my people


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us not, and our people Heb. me not, and my people

a deadly Isa 13:7-9; Jer 48:42-44

the hand 1Sam 5:6, 1Sam 5:9


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died 1Kgs 19:17; Amos 5:19

the cry 1Sam 9:16; Exod 12:30; Isa 15:3-5; Jer 14:2, Jer 25:34, Jer 48:3


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