¹约柜在非利士各城引起的灾害

¹And the Philistines have taken the ark of God, and bring it in from Eben-Ezer to Ashdod,

²非利士人抢去　神的约柜，把它抬进大衮庙，放在大衮神像的旁边。

²and the Philistines take the ark of God and bring it into the house of Dagon, and set it near Dagon.

³第二天清早，亚实突人起来，看见大衮神像仆倒在地，俯伏在耶和华的约柜面前。他们就把大衮神像竖立起来，放回原处。

³And the Ashdodites rise early on the morrow, and lo, Dagon is fallen on its face to the earth, before the ark of Jehovah; and they take Dagon, and put it back to its place.

⁴再次日早晨，他们起来的时候，看见大衮神像又仆倒在地，俯伏在耶和华的约柜面前，大衮的头和双手也都在门槛上折断了，只剩下大衮的身体。

⁴And they rise early in the morning on the morrow, and lo, Dagon is fallen on its face to the earth, before the ark of Jehovah, and the head of Dagon, and the two palms of its hands are cut off at the threshold, only the fishy part hath been left to him;

⁵因此大衮的祭司和所有进亚实突大衮庙的人，都不踏大衮庙的门槛，直到现在。

⁵therefore the priests of Dagon, and all those coming into the house of Dagon, tread not on the threshold of Dagon, in Ashdod, till this day.

⁶耶和华的手重重地压在亚实突人身上，败坏他们，用痔疮击打亚实突和亚实突四境的人。

⁶And the hand of Jehovah is heavy on the Ashdodites, and He maketh them desolate, and smiteth them with emerods, Ashdod and its borders.

⁷亚实突人看见这种情形，就说：“以色列　神的约柜不可再留在我们这里，因为他的手重重地加在我们和我们的神大衮身上。”

⁷And the men of Ashdod see that [it is] so, and have said, `The ark of the God of Israel doth not abide with us, for hard hath been His hand upon us, and upon Dagon our god.`

⁸他们就派人去召集非利士人各城的首领前来，问他们：“我们要怎样处理以色列　神的约柜呢？”他们回答：“把以色列　神的约柜运到迦特去吧。”他们就把它运到迦特去了。

⁸And they send and gather all the princes of the Philistines unto them, and say, `What do we do to the ark of the God of Israel?` and they say, `To Gath let the ark of the God of Israel be brought round;` and they bring round the ark of the God of Israel;

⁹运到那里以后，耶和华的手攻击那城，引起很大的恐慌。他击打全城的人，不分老幼，使痔疮在他们中间蔓延。

⁹and it cometh to pass after they have brought it round, that the hand of Jehovah is against the city — a very great destruction; and He smiteth the men of the city, from small even unto great; and break forth on them do emerods.

¹⁰于是他们把　神的约柜送到以革伦。　神的约柜到了以革伦的时候，以革伦人就喊叫：“他们把以色列　神的约柜运到我们这里来，是要杀害我们和我们的人啊！”

¹⁰And they send the ark of God to Ekron, and it cometh to pass, at the coming in of the ark of God to Ekron, that the Ekronites cry out, saying, `They have brought round unto us the ark of the God of Israel, to put us to death — and our people.`

¹¹于是他们派人去召集非利士人各城的首领前来，对他们说：“请把以色列　神的约柜送回原处，免得它杀害我们和我们的人民。”死亡的恐慌笼罩全城，因为　神的手重重地压在那里。

¹¹And they send and gather all the princes of the Philistines, and say, `Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and it turneth back to its place, and it doth not put us to death — and our people;` for there hath been a deadly destruction throughout all the city, very heavy hath the hand of God been there,

¹²没有死的人都遭受痔疮的打击；那城的哀声，上达于天。

¹²and the men who have not died have been smitten with emerods, and the cry of the city goeth up into the heavens.