TSK - 1 SAMUEL 5

  1  The Philistines having brought the ark into Ashdod, set it
    in the house of Dagon.
 3  Dagon is smitten down and cut in pieces, and they of Ashdod
    smitten with emerods.
 8  So God deals with them of Gath, when it was brought
    thither;
10  and so with them of Ekron, when it was brought thither.


VERSE 1
- took.
   * 1Sa 4:11,17,18,22 Ps 78:61
- Eben-ezer.
   * 1Sa 4:1; 7:12
- 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.


VERSE 2 
 - of Dagon.
   * Jud 16:23 1Ch 10:10 Da 5:2,23 Hab 1:11,16


VERSE 3 
 - 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


VERSE 4 
 - 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:  [
                                                               ]
  "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, [
                                                              .]
  "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.


VERSE 5 
 - neither.
   * Ps 115:4-7; 135:15-18
- tread.
   * Jos 5:15 Zep 1:9


VERSE 6 
 - 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:  [
                      .]  {Et ebullierunt villae et agri in medio
  regionis illius, et nati sunt mures; et facta est confusio
  mortis magnae 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."  See ch.

   * 1Sa 6:4,5


VERSE 7 
 - saw.
   * 1Sa 4:8 Ex 8:8,28; 9:28; 10:7; 12:33
- The ark.
   * 1Sa 6:20 2Sa 6:9 1Ch 13:11-13; 15:13
- upon Dagon our god.  See on ver.
   * :3,4 Jer 46:25; 48:7


VERSE 8 
 - What shall.
   * Zec 12:3
- Gath.
   * 1Sa 17:4 Am 6:2


VERSE 9 
 - the hand.
   * :6; 7:13; 12:15 De 2:15 Am 5:19; 9:1-4
- with a very.
   * :11
- and they had emerods.
   * :6; 6:4,5,11 Ps 78:66


VERSE 10 
 - 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 my
  people.


VERSE 11 
 - us not, and our people.  Heb. me not, and my people.  a
  deadly.
   * Isa 13:7-9 Jer 48:42-44
- the hand.
   * :6,9


VERSE 12 
 - died.
   * 1Ki 19:17 Am 5:19
- the cry.
   * 1Sa 9:16 Ex 12:30 Isa 15:3-5 Jer 14:2; 25:34; 48:3



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