1Sa 4:3-4, 10-11, 22-6:21, Psa 78:60-64, Jer 26:6 | TSK | STEP | Wherefore. Let us. fetch. Heb. take unto us. the ark. it may save.

Ashdod.Ashdod, called Azotus by the Greeks, was one of the five satrapies of the Philistines, and a place of great strength and consequence. It was situated near the Mediterranean, between Askelon and Jamnia, thirty-four miles north of Gaza, according to Diodorus Siculus, and the Antonine and Jerusalem Itineraries. It is now called Shdood; and Dr. Richardson says they neither saw nor heard of any ruins there. "The ground," he observes, "around Ashdod is beautifully undulating, but not half stocked with cattle. The site of the town is on the summit of a grassy hill; and, if we are to believe historians, was anciently as strong as it was beautiful."

Jos 11:22; Ac 8:40

Azotus.

of Dagon.

Jud 16:23; 1Ch 10:10; Da 5:2,23; Hab 1:11,16

Dagon was.

Ex 12:12; Ps 97:7; Isa 19:1; 46:1,2; Zep 2:11; Mr 3:11; Lu 10:18-20

2Co 6:14-16

set him.

Isa 19:1; 40:20; 41:7; 44:17-20; 46:1,2,7; Jer 10:8

the head.

Isa 2:18,19; 27:9; Jer 10:11; 50:2; Eze 6:4-6; Da 11:8; Mic 1:7

of Dagon.The name of this idol, Dagon, signifies a fish: and it is supposed to be the Atergatis of the Syrians, corruptly called Derceto by the Greeks, which had the upper part like a woman, and the lower part like a fish; as Lucian informs us: [Derketous de eidos en Phoinike etheésamén, theéma xenon; émisen men gyné; to de okoson ek mérón es akrous podas, ichtlyos ouré apoteinetai;] "In Phoenicia I saw the image of Derceto; a strange sight truly! For she had the half of a woman, but from the thighs downward a fish's tail." Diodorus, (1. ii.) describing the same idol, as represented at Askelon, says, [to men prosópon echei synaikos, to d'allo sóma pan ichthyos.] "It had the head of a woman, but all the rest of the body a fish's." Probably Horace alludes to this idol, in De Art. Poet. v. 4; {Desinat in piscem, mulier formosa superne:} "The upper part a handsome woman, and the lower part a fish." If such was the form of this idol, then everything that was human was broken off from what resembled a fish.

the stump. or, the fishy part.

neither.

Ps 115:4-7; 135:15-18

tread.

Jos 5:15; Zep 1:9

the hand.

7,11; Ex 9:3; Ps 32:4; Ac 13:11

emerods.

9,11; 6:5; De 28:27; Job 31:3; Ps 78:66

thereof.The LXX. and Vulgate add: [Kai meson tés choras autés anephyésan myes kai egeneto synchysis thanatou megalé en té polei; {Et ebullierunt villæ et agri in medio regionis illius, et nati sunt mures; et facta est confusio mortis magnæ in civitate; "And [the cities and fields in Vulg.] the midst of that region produced mice; [Vulg. burst up, and mice were produced;] and there was the confusion of a great death in the city."

6:4,5

saw.

4:8; Ex 8:8,28; 9:28; 10:7; 12:33

The ark.

6:20; 2Sa 6:9; 1Ch 13:11-13; 15:13

upon Dagon our god.

3,4; Jer 46:25; 48:7

What shall.

Zec 12:3

Gath.

17:4; Am 6:2

the hand.

6; 7:13; 12:15; De 2:15; Am 5:19; 9:1-4

with a very.

and they had emerods.

6; 6:4,5,11; Ps 78:66

God to Ekron.

Jos 15:45; Jud 1:18; 2Ki 1:2; Am 1:8

us, to slay us and our people. Heb. me, to slay me and mypeople.

us not, and our people. Heb. me not, and my people. adeadly.

Isa 13:7-9; Jer 48:42-44

the hand.

6,9

died.

1Ki 19:17; Am 5:19

the cry.

9:16; Ex 12:30; Isa 15:3-5; Jer 14:2; 25:34; 48:3

1 Samuel 6

1 After seven months the Philistines take counsel how to send back the ark.

10 They bring it on a new cart with an offering unto Beth-shemesh.

19 The people are smitten for looking into the ark.

21 They send to them of Kirjath-jearim to fetch it.

A.M. 2864. B.C. 1140. An. Ex. Is. 351. the ark.

5:1,3,10,11; Ps 78:61

called.

Ge 41:8; Ex 7:11; Isa 47:12,13; Da 2:2; 5:7; Mt 2:4

wherewith.

Mic 6:6-9

empty.

Ex 23:15; 34:20; De 16:16

a trespass.

Le 5:6,15-19; 6:6; 7:1-7

known.

9; 5:7,9,11; Job 10:2; 34:31,32

Five golden.

5,17,18; 5:6,9; Ex 12:35; Jos 13:3; Jud 3:3

you all. Heb. them.

mice.Bochart has collected many curious accounts relative to the terrible devastations made by these mischievous animals. William, Archbishop of Tyre, records, that in the beginning of the twelfth century, a penitential council was held at Naplouse, where five and twenty canons were framed for the correction of the manners of the inhabitants of the Christian kingdom of Jerusalem, who they apprehended had provoked to bring upon them the calamities of earthquakes, war, and famine. This last he ascribes to locusts and devouring mice, which had for four years together so destroyed the fruits of the earth as to cause an almost total failure of their crops. It was customary for the ancient heathen to offer to their gods such monuments of their deliverance as represented the evils from which they had been rescued; and Tavernier informs us, that among the Indians, when a pilgrim goes to one of the pagodas for a cure, he brings the figure of the member affected, made of gold, silver, or copper, according to his circumstances, which he offers to his god.

Ex 8:5,17,24; 10:14,15; Joe 1:4-7; 2:25

give glory.

Jos 7:19; Ps 18:44; 66:3; *marg:

Isa 42:12; Jer 3:13; 13:16; Mal 2:2; Joh 9:24; Re 11:13; 16:9

lighten.

5:6,11; Ps 32:4; 39:10

off your.

5:3,4,7; Ex 12:12; Nu 33:4; Isa 19:1

harden.

Job 9:4; Ps 95:8; Ro 2:5; Heb 3:13

the Egyptians.

Ex 7:13; 8:15; 9:16,34; 10:3; 14:17,23; 15:14-16

wonderfully. or, reproachfully. did they not.

Ex 12:31-33

the people. Heb. them.

new cart.

2Sa 6:3; 1Ch 13:7

on which.

Nu 19:2

jewels.

4,5

Beth-shemesh.

Jos 15:10; 21:16

he. or, it.

Am 3:6

we shall.

not his hand.

Isa 26:11

a chance.

2Sa 1:6; Ec 9:11; Lu 10:31

they laid.

2Sa 6:3; 1Ch 13:7; 15:13-15

offered.

7:9-17; 11:5; 20:29; Ex 20:24; Jud 6:26; 21:4; 2Sa 24:18,22,25

1Ki 18:30-38

the five.

4,12; Jos 13:3; Jud 3:3; 16:5,23-30

they returned.

5:10

these.

Ashdod.

5:1; 2Ch 26:6; Jer 25:20; Zec 9:6

Gaza.

Jud 16:1,21; Am 1:7,8

Askelon.

Jud 1:18; Zec 9:5

Gath.

5:8; 2Sa 1:20; 21:22; Am 6:2

Ekron.

5:10; 2Ki 1:2; Am 1:8

the five lords.

16; Jos 13:3

great stone of. or, great stone.

he smote.

Ex 19:21; Le 10:1-3; Nu 4:4,5,15,20; De 29:29; 2Sa 6:7

1Ch 13:9,10; Col 2:18; 1Pe 4:17

fifty thousand.As it is very improbable that the village of Beth-shemesh should contain, or be capable of employing, 50,070 men in the fields at wheat harvest, much less that they could all peep into the ark, and from the uncommon manner in which it is expressed in the original, it is generally allowed that there is some corruption in the text, or that some explanatory word is omitted. The Hebrew is {shivim ish, chamishim aileph ish,} literally, "seventy men, fifty thousand men:" so LXX. [ .] Vulgate, {septuaginta viros, et quinquaginta millia plebis,} "70 (chief) men, and 50,000 common people." Targum, {besabey âmma,} "of the elders of the people 70 men, {ovekahala,} and in the congregation 50,000 men." But the Syriac, {chamsho alphin weshivin gavrin,} "5,000 and 70 men;" with which the Arabic agrees; while Josephus has only [ ,] seventy men; and three reputable MSS. of Dr. Kennicott's also omit "50,000 men." Some learned men, however, would render, by supplying [Mêm,] {mem,} "70 men; fifty out of a thousand;" which supposes about 1,400 present, and that a twentieth part were slain.

5:8-12; Nu 17:12,13; 2Sa 6:7,9; 1Ch 13:11-13; Ps 76:7; Mal 3:2

Lu 5:8; 8:37

Kirjath-jearim.

Jos 18:14; Jud 18:12; 1Ch 13:5,6; Ps 78:60; Jer 7:12,14