Verse 23

Samson’s Death and Burial The rulers of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate. They said,“Our god has handed Samson, our enemy, over to us.”

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 5:2-5 : 2 The Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the temple of Dagon, where they positioned it beside Dagon. 3 When the residents of Ashdod got up early the next day, Dagon was lying on the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place. 4 But when they got up early the following day, Dagon was again lying on the ground before the ark of the LORD. The head of Dagon and his two hands were sheared off and were lying at the threshold. Only Dagon’s body was left intact. 5 (For this reason, to this very day, neither Dagon’s priests nor anyone else who enters Dagon’s temple step on Dagon’s threshold in Ashdod.)
  • 1 Chr 10:10 : 10 They placed his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.
  • Job 30:9-9 : 9 Job’s Indignities“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them. 10 They detest me and maintain their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
  • Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest. 16 When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.
  • Prov 24:17 : 17 Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles do not let your heart rejoice,
  • Jer 2:11 : 11 Has a nation ever changed its gods(even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!
  • Mic 4:5 : 5 Though all the nations follow their respective gods, we will follow the LORD our God forever.
  • Rom 1:23-25 : 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
  • 1 Cor 8:4-5 : 4 With regard then to eating food sacrificed to idols, we know that“an idol in this world is nothing,” and that“there is no God but one.” 5 If after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth(as there are many gods and many lords),
  • 1 Cor 10:20 : 20 No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.