1 Samuel 5:7

New Century Version

When the people of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The Ark of the God of Israel can’t stay with us. God is punishing us and Dagon our god.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 6:9

David was afraid of the Lord that day, and he said, “How can the Ark of the Lord come to me now?”

1 Chronicles 15:13

The last time we did not ask the Lord how to carry it. You Levites didn’t carry it, so the Lord our God punished us.”

Exodus 10:7

The king’s officers asked him, “How long will this man make trouble for us? Let the Israelites go to worship the Lord their God. Don’t you know that Egypt is ruined?”

Exodus 12:33

The Egyptians also asked the Israelites to hurry and leave, saying, “If you don’t leave, we will all die!”

Exodus 8:28

The king said, “I will let you go so that you may offer sacrifices to the Lord your God in the desert, but you must not go very far away. Now go and pray for me.”

Exodus 8:8

The king called for Moses and Aaron and said, “Pray to the Lord to take the frogs away from me and my people. I will let your people go to offer sacrifices to the Lord.”

Exodus 9:28

Pray to the Lord. We have had enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not have to stay here any longer.”

Jeremiah 46:25

The Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: “Very soon I will punish Amon, the god of the city of Thebes. And I will punish Egypt, her kings, her gods, and the people who depend on the king.

Jeremiah 48:7

You trust in the things you do and in your wealth, so you also will be captured. The god Chemosh will go into captivity and his priests and officers with him.

1 Samuel 4:8

How terrible it will be for us! Who can save us from these powerful gods? They are the ones who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of disasters in the desert.

1 Samuel 5:6

The Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and their neighbors. He caused them to suffer and gave them growths on their skin.

1 Samuel 5:8

The people of Ashdod called all five Philistine kings together and asked them, “What should we do with the Ark of the God of Israel?” The rulers answered, “Move the Ark of the God of Israel to Gath.” So the Philistines moved it to Gath.

1 Samuel 6:20

They said, “Who can stand before the Lord, this holy God? Whom will he strike next?”