1 Samuel 5:2-6
of Dagon Judg 16:23; 1Chr 10:10; Dan 5:2, Dan 5:23; Hab 1:11, Hab 1:16 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 the hand 1Sam 5:7, 1Sam 5:11; Exod 9:3; Ps 32:4; Acts 13:11 emerods 1Sam 5:9, 1Sam 5:11, 1Sam 6:5; Deut 28:27; Job 31:3; Ps 78:66 thereof The LXX and Vulgate add: Και μεσον της χωρας αυτης ανεφυησαν μυες και εγενετο συγχυσις θανατου μεγαλη εν τη πολει. (Et ebullierunt ville et agri in medio regionis illius, et nati sunt mures; et facta est confusio mortis magne 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." 1Sam 6:4-5
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