The Philistines took God’s ark, and brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
Parallel translations
- KJV When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
- BSB carried it into the temple of Dagon, and set it beside his statue.
- NKJV When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.
- NASB Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon, and placed it beside Dagon.
- NLT They carried the Ark of God into the temple of Dagon and placed it beside an idol of Dagon.
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- Judg 16:23The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”
- Dan 5:23but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them; and you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not glorified.
- 1 Chr 10:10They put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.
- Dan 5:2Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.
- Hab 1:11Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god.”
- Hab 1:16Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good.
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