1 Samuel 5:7

Listen to 1 Samuel 5:7
7 La gente de Asdod reconoci贸 lo que estaba pasando, y declar贸: 芦El arca del Dios de Israel no puede quedarse en medio nuestro, porque ese dios ha descargado su mano sobre nosotros y contra nuestro dios Dag贸n禄.

1 Samuel 5:7 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 5:7

And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so
That many of their inhabitants were taken away by death, and others afflicted with a painful disease; all which they imputed to the ark being among them:

they said, the ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us;
like the Gergesenes, who besought Christ to depart their coasts, having more regard for their swine than for him:

for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon, our god,
not the hand of the ark, unless they took it for a god, but the hand of the God of Israel; in this they were right, and seem to have understood the case better than the other lords they after consulted; his hand was upon Dagon, as appeared his fall before the ark, and upon them by smiting with the haemorrhoids, the memory of which abode with the Philistines for ages afterwards; for we are told F23 that the Scythians, having plundered the temple of Venus at Ashkelon, one of their five principalities, the goddess inflicted upon them the female disease, or the haemorrhoids; which shows that it was thought to be a disease inflicted by way of punishment for sacrilege, and that it was still remembered what the Philistines suffered for a crime of the like nature.


FOOTNOTES:

F23 Herodot. Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 105.
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1 Samuel 5:7 In-Context

5 Por eso, hasta el d铆a de hoy, ninguno de los que entran en el templo de Dag贸n en Asdod, incluso los sacerdotes, pisan el umbral.
6 Entonces el SE脩OR descarg贸 su mano sobre la poblaci贸n de Asdod y sus alrededores, y los azot贸 con tumores.
7 La gente de Asdod reconoci贸 lo que estaba pasando, y declar贸: 芦El arca del Dios de Israel no puede quedarse en medio nuestro, porque ese dios ha descargado su mano sobre nosotros y contra nuestro dios Dag贸n禄.
8 As铆 que convocaron a todos los jefes filisteos y les preguntaron:鈥斅縌u茅 vamos a hacer con el arca del Dios de Israel?鈥擳rasladen el arca del Dios de Israel a la ciudad de Gat 鈥攔espondieron los jefes.Y as铆 lo hicieron.
9 Pero despu茅s de que la trasladaron, el SE脩OR castig贸 a esa ciudad, afligiendo con una erupci贸n de tumores a sus habitantes, desde el m谩s peque帽o hasta el mayor. Eso provoc贸 un p谩nico horrible.
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