1 Samuel 5:5-7

Living Bible

⁵ (That is why to this day neither the priests of Dagon nor his worshipers will walk on the threshold of the temple of Dagon in Ashdod.)

⁶ Then the Lord began to destroy the people of Ashdod and the nearby villages with bubonic plague. ⁷ When the people realized what was happening, they exclaimed, “We can’t keep the Ark of the God of Israel here any longer. We will all perish along with our god Dagon.”