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.
To rejoice
Bible References
Dagon
1 Samuel 5:2
Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon.
Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.
Micah 4:5
For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
Romans 1:23
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Therefore, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that "an idol has no real existence," and that "there is no God but one."
1 Corinthians 10:20
No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.
To rejoice
Job 30:9
"And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them.
Psalm 35:15
But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered; they gathered together against me; wretches whom I did not know tore at me without ceasing;
Proverbs 24:17
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,