Judges 16:23
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Samson’s Death
23 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon and to rejoice, for they said, “Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand.”(A)
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1 Maccabees 11:4
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4 When he[a] approached Azotus, they showed him the burnt-out temple of Dagon, and Azotus and its suburbs destroyed, and the corpses lying about, and the charred bodies of those whom Jonathan[b] had burned in the war, for they had piled them in heaps along his route.(A)
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1 Maccabees 16:10
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10 They also fled into the towers that were in the fields of Azotus, and John[a] burned it with fire, and about two thousand of them fell. He then returned to Judea safely.(A)
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