Judges 16:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Dagon

To rejoice

Job 30:9

Psalm 35:15

Proverbs 24:17

Bible References

Dagon

Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.

“Has a nation changed gods
When they were not gods?
But My people have changed their glory
For that which does not profit.

Though all the peoples walk
Each in the name of his god,
As for us, we will walk
In the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.

and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that there is no such thing as an idol in the world, and that there is no God but one.

No, but I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God; and I do not want you to become sharers in demons.

To rejoice

“And now I have become their

taunt,

I have even become a byword to them.

But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered themselves together;
The

smiters whom I did not know gathered together against me,

They

slandered me without ceasing.

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,

And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;