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The Ark of the Covenant among the Philistines

Now the Philistines had captured[a] the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the temple of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon. When the Ashdodites got up early the next morning, there was[b] Dagon fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh! So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 5:1 Or “taken”
  2. 1 Samuel 5:3 Literally “look”