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.

Bible References

Dagon

1 Samuel 5:2
brought it into the temple of Dagon and placed it next to his statue.
Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation ever exchanged its gods?
(But they were not gods!)
Yet My people have exchanged their Glory
for useless idols.
Micah 4:5
Though all the peoples each walk
in the name of their gods,
we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God
forever and ever.
Romans 1:23
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.
1 Corinthians 8:4
About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”
1 Corinthians 10:20
No, but I do say that what they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God. I do not want you to participate with demons!

To rejoice

Job 30:9
Now I am mocked by their songs;
I have become an object of scorn to them.
Psalm 35:15
But when I stumbled, they gathered in glee;
they gathered against me.
Assailants I did not know
tore at me and did not stop.
Proverbs 24:17
Don’t gloat when your enemy falls,
and don’t let your heart rejoice when he stumbles,

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