1 Samuel 5:4
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| 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. |
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1 Samuel 5:4 (King James Version)
And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
- the head
- Isaiah 2:18 Isaiah 2:19 ; 27:9 Jeremiah 10:11 ; 50:2 Ezekiel 6:4-6 ; Daniel 11:8 ; Micah 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: [Derketous de eidos en Phoinike ethesamn, thema xenon;
- misen men gyn; to de okoson ek mrn es akrous podas,
- ichtlyos our apoteinetai;] "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, [to men prospon echei synaikos, to d'allo sma pan ichthyos.] "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. v. 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.