--- title: "1 Samuel 5 - Study King James Bible with treasury of scripture knowledge" description: "Read 1 Samuel 5 with treasury of scripture knowledge commentary. 1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod. 2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/1-samuel/5" --- [ Read](/kjv/1-samuel/5)[ Commentary](/study/1-samuel/5)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/1-samuel/5) Audio 1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod. 2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. 3 ¶ And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon *was* fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again. 4 And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon *was* fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands *were* cut off upon the threshold; only *the stump of* Dagon was left to him.* 5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day. 6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, *even* Ashdod and the coasts thereof. 7 And when the men of Ashdod saw that *it was* so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god. 8 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about *thither*. 9 And it was *so*, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts. 10 ¶ Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.* 11 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.* 12 And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven. [1 Samuel 4](/study/1-samuel/4) [1 Samuel 6](/study/1-samuel/6) ## Commentary To verse 1 **took:** [1 Samuel 4:11](/kjv/1-samuel/4/11), [1 Samuel 4:17](/kjv/1-samuel/4/17), [1 Samuel 4:18](/kjv/1-samuel/4/18), [1 Samuel 4:22](/kjv/1-samuel/4/22), [Psalms 78:61](/kjv/psalms/78/61) **Ebenezer:** [1 Samuel 4:1](/kjv/1-samuel/4/1), [1 Samuel 7:12](/kjv/1-samuel/7/12) **Ashdod:** Ashdod, called Azotus by the Greeks, was one of the five satrapies of the Philistines, and a place of great strength and consequence. It was situated near the Mediterranean, between Askelon and Jamnia, thirty-four miles north of Gaza, according to Diodorus Siculus, and the Antonine and Jerusalem Itineraries. It is now called Shdood; and Dr. Richardson says they neither saw nor heard of any ruins there. "The ground," he observes, "around Ashdod is beautifully undulating, but not half stocked with cattle. The site of the town is on the summit of a grassy hill; and, if we are to believe historians, was anciently as strong as it was beautiful." [Joshua 11:22](/kjv/joshua/11/22), [Acts 8:40](/kjv/acts/8/40), Azotus **Reciprocal:** [Joshua 15:46](/kjv/joshua/15/46) - near [1 Samuel 6:1](/kjv/1-samuel/6/1) - the ark [1 Samuel 6:17](/kjv/1-samuel/6/17) - Ashdod [2 Chronicles 26:6](/kjv/2-chronicles/26/6) - about [Nehemiah 4:7](/kjv/nehemiah/4/7) - Ashdodites [Nehemiah 13:23](/kjv/nehemiah/13/23) - Ashdod [Daniel 5:23](/kjv/daniel/5/23) - and they [Amos 3:9](/kjv/amos/3/9) - Ashdod ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/1-samuel/5#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/1-samuel/5#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/1-samuel/5","name":"1 Samuel 5 - Study King James Bible with treasury of scripture knowledge","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/1-samuel/5#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read 1 Samuel 5 with treasury of scripture knowledge commentary. 1 And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod. 2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/1-samuel/5#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/1-samuel/5"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/1-samuel/5#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","name":"Study Bible"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge","name":"treasury of scripture knowledge"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/1-samuel","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/1-samuel","name":"1 Samuel"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/1-samuel/5","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/treasury-of-scripture-knowledge/1-samuel/5","name":"5"}}]},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","width":512,"height":512},"logo":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo"},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/RBiblebeliever","https://www.facebook.com/RBibleBelievers"]}]} ```