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
They brought it into the temple of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon.
Jeremiah 2:11
Has any nation ever exchanged gods? Their gods are not really gods. Yet my people have exchanged their glory for something that does not help them.
Micah 4:5
All the nations walk every one in the name of their god. We will walk in the name of Jehovah our God forever and ever.
Romans 1:23
They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
1 Corinthians 8:4
Concerning the eating of food offered in sacrifice to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
1 Corinthians 10:20
But I say, that the things that the nations sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God. I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.
To rejoice
Job 30:9
Now they make fun of me with songs. I have become a joke to them.
Psalm 35:15
Yet, when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together. They gathered together against me. Unknown attackers tore me apart without stopping.
Proverbs 24:17
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls. Do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles.