1 Samuel 5:3 meaning and explanation
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.
1 Samuel 5:3, Berean Standard Bible
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The Philistines had captured the ark in battle and placed it in Dagon's temple at Ashdod, treating it as a trophy of their god's victory. The next morning Dagon's statue lay face down before the ark, the posture of a subject bowing to a conqueror.
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