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Gederoth, Beth-Dagon, Naamah and Makkedah: sixteen towns with their villages. (Joshua 15, 41)
On the west, it touched Carmel and the course of the Libnath. On the side of the rising sun, it went as far as Beth-Dagon, touched Zebulun, the Valley of Iphtah-El on the north side, Beth-ha-Emek and Neiel, coming out with Cabul on the left, (Joshua 19, 27)
The Philistine chiefs assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god. And amid their festivities they said: Into our hands our god has delivered Samson our enemy. (Judges 16, 23)
Taking the ark of God, the Philistines put it in the temple of Dagon, setting it down beside Dagon. (1 Samuel 5, 2)
When the people of Ashdod got up the following morning and went to the temple of Dagon, there lay Dagon face down on the ground before the ark of Yahweh. They picked Dagon up and put him back in his place. (1 Samuel 5, 3)
But when they got up on the following morning, there lay Dagon face down on the ground before the ark of Yahweh, and Dagon's head and two hands lay severed on the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left in its place. (1 Samuel 5, 4)
This is why the priests of Dagon and the people frequenting Dagon's temple never step on Dagon's threshold in Ashdod, even today. (1 Samuel 5, 5)
'The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us, for he is oppressing us and our god Dagon.' (1 Samuel 5, 7)
They placed his armour in the temple of their gods and nailed his head up in the temple of Dagon. (1 Chronicles 10, 10)
The cavalry scattered over the plain and fled to Azotus, where they took sanctuary in Beth-Dagon, the temple of their idol. (1 Maccabees 10, 83)
Jonathan, however, set fire to Azotus and the surrounding towns, plundered them, and burned down the temple of Dagon, with all the fugitives who had crowded into it. (1 Maccabees 10, 84)
When he reached Azotus he was shown the burnt-out temple of Dagon, with Azotus and its suburbs in ruins, corpses scattered here and there, and the charred remains of those whom Jonathan had burnt to death in the battle, piled into heaps along his route. (1 Maccabees 11, 4)