1 Samuel 5:2
Good News Translation
took it into the temple of their god Dagon, and set it up beside his statue.

New Revised Standard Version
then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon.

Contemporary English Version
They brought it into the temple of their god Dagon and put it next to the statue of Dagon, which they worshiped.

New American Bible
They then took the ark of God and brought it into the temple of Dagon, placing it beside Dagon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the temple of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

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And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the temple of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

of Dagon

Judges 16:23 And the princes of the Philistines assembled together, to offer great sacrifices to Dagon their god, and to make merry, saying: Our god hath delivered our enemy Samson into our hands.

1 Chronicles 10:10 And his armour they dedicated in the temple of their god, and his head they fastened up in the temple of Dagon.

Daniel 5:2,23 And being now drunk, he commanded that they should bring the vessels of gold and silver, which Nabuchodonosor, his father, had brought away out of the temple, that was in Jerusalem, that the king and his nobles, and his wives, and his concubines, might drink in them. . . .

Habakkuk 1:11,16 Then shall his spirit be changed, and he shall pass, and fall: this is his strength of his god. . . .

Context
The Ark Afflicts the Philistines
1And the Philistines took the ark of God, and carried it from the Stone of help into Azotus. 2And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it into the temple of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.3And when the Azotians arose early the next day, behold Dagon lay upon his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord: and they took Dagon, and set him again in his place.…
Cross References
Judges 16:23
And the princes of the Philistines assembled together, to offer great sacrifices to Dagon their god, and to make merry, saying: Our god hath delivered our enemy Samson into our hands.

1 Chronicles 10:8
And the next day the Philistines taking away the spoils of them that were slain, found Saul and his sons lying on mount Gelboe.

1 Samuel 5:1
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