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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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;

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.`

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.

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;

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.

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.

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!

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.`

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.

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,

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

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