Dagon

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1. The Ark of God in Peleshet

   Chapter 5

   Rabbi Amnon Bazak

   While Israel's defeat to the Philistines was a divine punishment, the Philistines perceived their victory as a testimony to their own strength, and victory over the God of Israel, whom they believe to be personified by the Ark. Chapter 5 refutes this claim.

2. Lesson 4: The Mockery of Dagon

   Prof. Yehuda Elitzur

   Underlying the Dagon story is the great prophetic debate with paganism and with the heathen notion of conquering and vanquished gods. The Bible teaches that the Philistine victory was due to the will of God, for the idols are nothing but “the work of men’s hands”. In the story of the Ark and Dagon we are taught that Israel’s failure, as well as its success, comes from the universal God who exists even within the temple of Dagon.