KJV King James Version
Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
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Judges 16:23
Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”
WEB World English Bible
The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.”
ASV American Standard Version
And the lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and the princes of the Philistines have been gathered together to sacrifice a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; and they say, ‘Our god hath given into our hand Samson our enemy.’
Surrounding context — Judges 16
20 And she said, The Philistines [be] upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
22 Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.
23 Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.
26 And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.
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וְסַרְנֵ֣יH5633 · se.renlordפְלִשְׁתִּ֗יםH6430 · pe.lish.tiPhilistineנֶֽאֱסְפוּ֙H622 · a.saphto gatherלִזְבֹּ֧חַH2076 · za.vachto sacrificeזֶֽבַח־H2077 · ze.vachsacrificeגָּד֛וֹלH1419 · ga.dolgreat: largeלְדָג֥וֹןH1712 · da.gonDagonאֱלֹהֵיהֶ֖םH430 · e.lo.himGodוּלְשִׂמְחָ֑הH8057 · sim.chahjoyוַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּH559 · a.marto sayנָתַ֤ןH5414 · na.tanto give: giveאֱלֹהֵ֙ינוּ֙H430 · e.lo.himGodבְּיָדֵ֔נוּH3027 · yadhandאֵ֖תH853 · et[Obj.]שִׁמְשׁ֥וֹןH8123 · shim.shonSamsonאוֹיְבֵֽינוּ׃H341 · o.yevenemy
Cross-references
Proverbs 24:17Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:1 Samuel 5:2-5When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.Jeremiah 2:11Hath a nation changed [their] gods, which [are] yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for [that which] doth not profit.1 Chronicles 10:10And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.Romans 1:23-25And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.Micah 4:5For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.Psalm 35:15-16But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:Job 30:9-10And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.1 Corinthians 8:4-5As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol [is] nothing in the world, and that [there is] none other God but one.1 Corinthians 10:20But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.
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