Introduction
The Philistines set up the ark in the temple of Dagon at Ashdod; whose image is found next morning prostrate before it, broken in pieces, 1 Samuel 5:1-5 . The Philistines are also smitten with a sore disease, 1 Samuel 5:6 . The people of Ashdod refuse to let the ark stay with them; and the lords of the Philistines, with whom they consulted, order it to be carried to Gath, 1 Samuel 5:7 , 1 Samuel 5:8 . They do so; and God smites the inhabitants of that city, young and old, with the same disease, 1 Samuel 5:9 . They send the ark to Ekron, and a heavy destruction fags upon that city, and they resolve to send it back to Shiloh, 1 Samuel 5:10-12 .
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