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Capture of the Ark Provokes God
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|1 Samuel 5:1| Then the Philistines took the ark of God, and they brought it from Ebenezer to1 Ashdod.
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|1 Samuel 5:2| They took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it beside[the image of] Dagon[their chief idol] .
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|1 Samuel 5:3| When the people of Ashdod got up early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.
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|1 Samuel 5:4| But when they got up early the next morning, behold, Dagon had[again] fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the LORD, and his head and both palms of his hands were[lying] cut off on the threshold; only the trunk[portion] of[the idol of] Dagon was left on him.
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|1 Samuel 5:5| This is the reason neither the priests of Dagon nor any who enter Dagon's house step on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.
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|1 Samuel 5:6| Then the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and He caused them to be dumbfounded and struck them with2 tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.
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|1 Samuel 5:7| When the men of Ashdod saw what had happened, they said, "The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for His hand is heavy on us and on Dagon our god."
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|1 Samuel 5:8| So they sent word and gathered all the lords (governors) of the Philistines to them and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" They answered, "Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around to3 Gath." So they took the ark of the God of Israel there.
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|1 Samuel 5:9| But it happened that after they had taken it to Gath, the hand of the LORD was against the city, causing an extremely great panic[because of the deaths from the plague] , for He struck the people of the city, both young and old, and tumors broke out on them.
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|1 Samuel 5:10| So they sent the ark of God to4 Ekron. And as the ark of God came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, "They have brought the ark of the God of Israel[from Gath] to5 us, to kill us and6 our people."
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