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1 Samuel 5:2

Good News Translation (US Version)

took it into the temple of their god Dagon, and set it up beside his statue.

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The Philistine kings met together to celebrate and offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They sang, “Our god has given us victory over our enemy Samson!”

You acted against the Lord of heaven and brought in the cups and bowls taken from his Temple. You, your noblemen, your wives, and your concubines drank wine out of them and praised gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that cannot see or hear and that do not know anything. But you did not honor the God who determines whether you live or die and who controls everything you do.

While they were drinking, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver cups and bowls which his father Nebuchadnezzar had carried off from the Temple in Jerusalem. The king sent for them so that he, his noblemen, his wives, and his concubines could drink out of them.

They put his weapons in one of their temples and hung his head in the temple of their god Dagon.

They even worship their nets and offer sacrifices to them, because their nets provide them with the best of everything.

Then they sweep on like the wind and are gone, these men whose power is their god.”

The day after the battle the Philistines went to plunder the corpses, and they found the bodies of Saul and his sons lying on Mount Gilboa.




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