3 Then the Ashʹdod·ites got up early the very next day,* and there Daʹgon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of Jehovah.+ So they took* Daʹgon and returned him to his place.+
7 And the men of Ashʹdod came to see that it was so, and they said: “Do not let the ark of the God of Israel dwell with us, because his hand has been hard against us and against Daʹgon our god.”*+