1 Samuel 5:3-5
Dagon was Exod 12:12; Ps 97:7; Isa 19:1, Isa 46:1-2; Zeph 2:11; Mark 3:11; Luke 10:18-20; 2Cor 6:14-16 set him Isa 19:1, Isa 40:20, Isa 41:7, Isa 44:17-20, Isa 46:1-2, Isa 46:7; Jer 10:8 the head Isa 2:18-19, Isa 27:9; Jer 10:11, Jer 50:2; Ezek 6:4-6; Dan 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: Δερκετους δε ειδος εν Φοινικη εθεησαμην, θεημα ξενον; ημισεη μεν γυνη; το δε οκοσον εκ μηρων ες ακρους ποδας, ιχθυος ουρη αποτεινεται. "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, το μεν προσωπον εχει γυναικος, το δἀλλο σωμα παν ιχθυος. "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. 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, Ps 135:15-18 tread Josh 5:15; Zeph 1:9
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