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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Dagon (A male deity in the Old Testament)
The Philistines set the captured ark in Dagon's temple at Ashdod. His statue was found face down before the ark, and the second time it had lost its head and hands.
The Philistines set the captured ark in Dagon's temple at Ashdod. His statue was found face down before the ark, and the second time it had lost its head and hands.
Dagon was the chief god of the Philistines, and when the captured ark of the covenant was placed in Dagon's temple at Ashdod, his statue was found fallen face down before the ark twice, the second time with its head and hands broken off, a humiliating sign of Yahweh's superiority the Philistines couldn't ignore.
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- Judges 16:23
- 1 Samuel 5:2
- 1 Samuel 5:3
- 1 Samuel 5:4
- 1 Samuel 5:5
- 1 Samuel 5:7
- 1 Chronicles 10:10
