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1 Samuel 5
1 Samuels 1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7, 8,
9, 10,
11,12,
13, 14,
15, 16,
17, 18,
19, 20,
21, 22,
23, 24,
25, 26,
27, 28,
29, 30,
31
1 Samuel 5:1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from
Eben-ezer unto Ashdod.
2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of
Dagon, and set it by Dagon.
3 And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen
upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon, and
set him in his place again.
4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon
his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord; and the head of Dagon and
both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of
Dagon was left to him.
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Only . . . Dagon = The hands and feet being
gone, only Dagon (the fish part) remained.
5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house,
tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
6 But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them,
and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God
of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon
our god.
8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them,
and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered,
Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried
the ark of the God of Israel about thither.
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They carried the ark of the God unto Gath
9 And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the Lord was
against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the
city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.
10 Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark
of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought
about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and
said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own
place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction
throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the
city went up to heaven.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book:
Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh
his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.
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