1Now the Philistines, having taken the ark of God, took it with them from Eben-ezer to Ashdod.stylus1 Samuel 7:12, 1 Samuel 7:12, 1 Samuel 4:1, 1 Samuel 4:1, 1 Samuel 4:222They took the ark of God into the house of Dagon and put it by the side of Dagon.stylusJudges 16:23, Judges 16:23, 1 Chronicles 10:10, Daniel 5:23, Daniel 5:23And when the people of Ashdod got up early on the morning after, they saw that Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon up and put him in his place again.stylusIsaiah 19:1, Isaiah 19:1, Isaiah 46:1, Isaiah 46:2, Isaiah 46:14And when they got up early on the morning after, Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord; and his head and his hands were broken off on the doorstep; only the base was in its place.stylusMicah 1:7, Micah 1:7, Isaiah 2:18, Isaiah 2:19, Jeremiah 10:115So to this day no priest of Dagon, or any who come into Dagon's house, will put his foot on the doorstep of the house of Dagon in Ashdod.stylusZephaniah 1:9, Zephaniah 1:9, Psalms 115:4, Psalms 115:7, Psalms 115:46But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod.stylus1 Samuel 5:11, 1 Samuel 5:11, Deuteronomy 28:27, Exodus 9:3, Psalms 32:47And when the men of Ashdod saw how it was, they said, Let not the ark of the God of Israel be with us, for his hand is hard on us and on Dagon our god.stylusExodus 12:33, Exodus 12:33, Jeremiah 46:25, 1 Samuel 4:8, Exodus 8:88So they sent for all the lords of the Philistines to come together there, and said, What are we to do with the ark of the God of Israel? And their answer was, Let the ark of the God of Israel be taken away to Gath. So they took the ark of the God of Israel away.stylus1 Samuel 17:4, 1 Samuel 5:11, Zechariah 12:3, Amos 6:2, 1 Samuel 17:49But after they had taken it away, the hand of the Lord was stretched out against the town for its destruction: and the signs of disease came out on all the men of the town, small and great.stylus1 Samuel 5:6, 1 Samuel 5:6, 1 Samuel 7:13, Deuteronomy 2:15, 1 Samuel 7:1310So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And when the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of the town made an outcry, saying, They have sent the ark of the God of Israel to us for the destruction of us and of our people.stylusAmos 1:8, Amos 1:8, Judges 1:18, 2 Kings 1:2, Joshua 15:4511So they sent and got together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its place, so that it may not be the cause of death to us and to our people: for there was a great fear of death through all the town; the hand of God was very hard on them there.stylus1 Samuel 5:6, 1 Samuel 5:6, Jeremiah 48:42, Jeremiah 48:44, Isaiah 13:712And those men who were not overtaken by death were cruelly diseased: and the cry of the town went up to heaven.stylusExodus 12:30, Exodus 12:30, Amos 5:19, Amos 5:19, Jeremiah 48:3