¹And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashdod.

¹Tak tedy Filištíni vzali truhlu Božiu a dopravili ju z Ében-ézera do Ašdóda.

²When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.

²A Filištíni vezmúc truhlu Božiu dopravili ju do domu Dágonovho a postavili ju vedľa Dágona.

³And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

³No, keď na druhý deň vstali Ašdóďania skoro ráno, hľa, Dágon ležal padlý, tvárou obrátený k zemi, pred truhlou Hospodinovou. A vzali Dágona a postavili ho zpät na jeho miesto.

⁴And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.

⁴Ale keď opät vstali skoro ráno, na druhý deň, hľa, Dágon zase ležal padlý, tvárou obrátený k zemi, pred truhlou Hospodinovou, a hlava Dágonova aj obe dlane jeho rúk boly odrazené na prahu, iba rybí driek Dágonov bol zostal na ňom.

⁵Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon's house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.

⁵Preto nestúpajú kňazi Dágonovi ani nikto z tých, ktorí vchádzajú do domu Dágonovho, na prah Dágonov v Ašdóde až do tohoto dňa.

⁶But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.

⁶A ruka Hospodinova ťažko doliehala na Ašdóďanov, a hubil ich a bil ich vredami, Ašdód a jeho okolie.

⁷And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.

⁷Keď videli mužovia Ašdóda, že je tak, povedali: Nebude bývať truhla Boha Izraelovho u nás, lebo jeho ruka tvrdo dolieha na nás i na Dágona, nášho boha.

⁸They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel about thither.

⁸A poslali posolstvo a shromaždili k sebe všetky kniežatá Filištínov a povedali: Čo urobíme s truhlou Boha Izraelovho? A odpovedali: Nech sa prenesie truhla Boha Izraelovho do Gáta. A tak preniesli truhlu Boha Izraelovho ta.

⁹And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.

⁹A stalo sa, keď ju preniesli, že ruka Hospodinova bola proti mestu a spôsobila veľmi veľké zdesenie, a Hospodin bil mužov toho mesta od malého až do veľkého a vyhadzovaly sa im aj vredy.

¹⁰Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.

¹⁰Preto poslali truhlu Božiu do Ekróna. A stalo sa, ako prišla truhla Božia do Ekróna, že začali kričať Ekróňania a vraveli: Dopravili k nám truhlu Boha Izraelovho, aby nás usmrtil i náš ľud!

¹¹So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

¹¹Preto poslali poslov a shromaždili všetky kniežatá Filištínov a povedali: Odošlite truhlu Boha Izraelovho, nech sa navráti na svoje miesto, aby neusmrtila i nás i nášho ľudu; pretože bolo smrteľné zdesenie v celom meste; bola tam ruka Božia veľmi ťažká.

¹²And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

¹²A mužovia, ktorí nepomreli, boli bití vredami, takže krik mesta vystupoval až do neba.