Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 5:4

4 Yòu cì rì qīngzǎo qǐlai , jiàn dà gún pú dǎo zaì Yēhéhuá de yuē guì qián , liǎn fú yú dì , bìngqiĕ dà gún de tóu hé liǎng shǒu dōu zaì mén jiàn shàng zhé duàn , zhǐ shèngxia dà gún de cán tǐ .

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 5:4 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 5:4

And when they arose early on the morrow morning
For the same purpose as before; unless they had any curiosity to indulge, to see whether the ark and Dagon agreed better together, if they had any suspicion that the former mischance was to be attributed to some variance and disagreement between them:

behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of
the Lord:
again, and in a worse condition than before:

and the head of Dagon, and both the palms of his hands, were cut off
upon the threshold;
of the temple, upon which he fell with such force, that the threshold cut off his head, and both his hands; which signified he had neither wisdom to contrive for his own safety, nor strength and power to defend himself; and therefore of what advantage could he be to his votaries? This may be an emblem of the fall of idolatry in the Gentile world, before the preaching of Christ and his Gospel in it; or of the idol of man's righteousness, which is set up, though it cannot stand, against the righteousness of Christ, and of man's renouncing that, when convinced of the weakness and insufficiency of it, and submitting to the righteousness of Christ:

only the stump of Dagon was left to him:
his body, as the Targum, his head and hands being cut off; or, as it is in the Hebrew text, only Dagon was left; that is, the fishy part of this idol; for "Dag" signifies a fish; and, as Kimchi relates, this idol, from the navel upwards, had the form of a man, and from thence downwards the form of a fish; and it was the lower part that was left; (See Gill on Judges 16:23).

Sāmǔĕrjìshàng 5:4 In-Context

2 Fēilìshì rén jiāng shén de yuē guì tái jìn dà gún miào , fàng zaì dà gún de pángbiān .

3 Cì rì qīngzǎo , Yàshítū rén qǐlai , jiàn dà gún pú dǎo zaì Yēhéhuá de yuē guì qián , liǎn fú yú dì , jiù bǎ dà gún réng lì zaì yuán chù .

4 Yòu cì rì qīngzǎo qǐlai , jiàn dà gún pú dǎo zaì Yēhéhuá de yuē guì qián , liǎn fú yú dì , bìngqiĕ dà gún de tóu hé liǎng shǒu dōu zaì mén jiàn shàng zhé duàn , zhǐ shèngxia dà gún de cán tǐ .

5 Yīncǐ , dà gún de jìsī hé yīqiè jìn Yàshítū , dà gún miào de rén dōu bú tā dà gún miào de mén jiàn , zhídào jīnrì .

6 Yēhéhuá de shǒu chóngchóng jiā zaì Yàshítū rénshēn shàng , baìhuaì tāmen , shǐ tāmen shēng zhì chuāng . Yàshítū hé Yàshítū de sì jìng dōu shì rúcǐ .