2. They brought it into the temple of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon.
3. Early the next day the people of Ashdod saw that Dagon had fallen forward on the ground in front of the Lord’s ark. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.
4. But the next morning they saw that Dagon had ⌊again⌋ fallen forward on the ground in front of the Lord’s ark. Dagon’s head and his two hands were cut off ⌊and were lying⌋ on the temple’s threshold. The rest of Dagon’s body was intact.
5. This is why the priests of Dagon and everyone else who comes into Dagon’s temple in Ashdod still don’t step on the temple’s threshold.
6. The Lord dealt harshly with the people of Ashdod. He destroyed them by striking the people in the vicinity of Ashdod with tumors.