1 Samuel 5:4 meaning and explanation
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.
1 Samuel 5:4, Berean Standard Bible
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The Philistines had captured the ark and placed it in Dagon's temple at Ashdod, treating the LORD as a defeated god beside their own. On the second morning Dagon lies face down before the ark again, but now his head and hands are broken off on the threshold, leaving only his torso.
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