5:5 tread on the threshold. Thresholds are often invested with special significance, and the practice of not stepping on the threshold of a sacred place was known, if not approved, in Israel (Zeph. 1:9). Linking the custom of the priests of Dagon with this humiliating incident may be intended more to ridicule them than to convey information about their ritual practice.

to this day. This phrase suggests a significant interval of time between the event and the account of it (cf. 6:18).