| Overview - 1 Samuel 5 | |
| 1 | The Philistines having brought the ark into Ashdod, set it in the house of Dagon. |
| 3 | Dagon is smitten down and cut in pieces, and they of Ashdod smitten with emerods. |
| 8 | So God deals with them of Gath, when it was brought thither; |
| 10 | and so with them of Ekron, when it was brought thither. |
1 Samuel 5:7 (King James Version)
And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.