1 Samuel 5 And the Philistines toke the arcke of God, & caried it from the helpe stone vnto Asdod, & broughte it

Matthew⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And the Philistines toke the arcke of God, & caried it from the helpe stone vnto Asdod, & broughte it ² into the house of Dagon, & set it by Dagon. ³ And when they of Asdod were vp in the morning, behold, Dagon lay grouelynge vpon the earthe before the arcke of the Lorde. And they toke Dagon & set him in his place agayne. ⁴ And when they were vp erlye the next mornyng, beholde, Dagon laye grouelyng vpon the grounde before the arcke of the Lorde, & hys head & hys two handes cut of vpon the tresholde, that the body onely was lefte on hym. ⁵ Wherfore nether the priestes of Dagon, nether any man that cometh into Dagons house myght treade on the tresholde of Dagon in Asdod, vnto this daye. ⁶ But the hand of the Lorde was heuye vpon them of Asdod, & he destroied them, & smote them wt Emerodes, both Asdod & all the coastes there of. ⁷ And when the men of Asdod sawe that it was so, they sayd: the arcke of the God of Israell shall not abyde here wyth vs, for his hand is sore vpon vs, & vpon Dagon our God. ⁸ And so they sente and gathered all the Lordes of the Philistines vnto them, & said: what shall we do with the arcke of the God of Israel. Then sayd they of Get: let the arcke of the God of Israel be caryed about. ⁹ And they caryed the arcke of the God of Israel about. And when they had caried it about, the hand of the Lord was in the cytye with a myghty great plage, and he smote the men of the cytye both smal & great: and they were smyten in theyr secrete places, with the Emerodes. ¹⁰ Then they sente the arcke of God to Akaron. And as sone as the arcke of God came to Akaron, the Akaronites cryed out saying: they haue brought the Arcke of the God of Israel to vs: to slee vs & oure people. ¹¹ Then they sent and fette all the Lordes of the Philistines vnto them, and sayde: sende awaye the arcke of the God of Israel, and let it go home agayne vnto hys owne place, that it slee vs not wyth our people. For there was a plage of death thorowout all the cytye, and the hand of God was excedyng sore there, ¹² in so much that they which dyed not, were smiten with the Emerades: so that the crye of the cytye went vp to heauen.