1 Samuel 5:2-7
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 10:18-202Co 6:14-16set 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 1:7of 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; 135:15-18tread.Jos 5:15; Zep 1:9 the hand.7,11; Ex 9:3; Ps 32:4; Ac 13:11emerods.9,11; 6:5; De 28:27; Job 31:3; Ps 78:66thereof.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; 12:33The ark.6:20; 2Sa 6:9; 1Ch 13:11-13; 15:13upon Dagon our god.3,4; Jer 46:25; 48:7
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