¹Filistejci so pa vzeli skrinjo Božjo in jo donesli iz Eben-ezerja v Asdod.

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

²In Filistejci vzemo skrinjo Božjo in jo prineso v hišo Dagonovo in jo postavijo poleg Dagona.

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

³Ko pa Asdodci zgodaj zjutraj vstanejo, vidijo, da je Dagon padel z obrazom na tla pred skrinjo GOSPODOVO. In vzdignejo Dagona in ga zopet postavijo na mesto njegovo.

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.

⁴Toda ko zgodaj vstanejo drugo jutro, glej, Dagon je bil spet padel z obrazom na tla pred skrinjo GOSPODOVO; in glava Dagonova in obe pesti rok njegovih so bile odsekane na pragu, samo ribasti trup ga je bil ostal.

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;

⁵Zatorej ne stopajo duhovniki Dagonovi, ne drugi, kolikor jih hodi v hišo njegovo, na prag Dagonov v Asdodu do tega dne.

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.

⁶Roka GOSPODOVA pa je bila težka nad Asdodci, in jih je trl ter jih udaril s tvori v Asdodu in po vsej okolici.

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

⁷In ko so videli možje v Asdodu, da se jim tako godi, reko: Naj ne ostane skrinja Boga Izraelovega pri nas, kajti roka njegova je pretrda nad nami in nad našim bogom Dagonom!

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.`

⁸In pošljejo in zbero k sebi vse kneze Filistejcev in reko: Kaj naj storimo s skrinjo Boga Izraelovega? Oni pa odgovore: Naj se prenese skrinja Boga Izraelovega v Gat! Prenesli so torej tja skrinjo Boga Izraelovega.

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;

⁹Zgodi se pa, potem ko so jo prenesli, da je bila roka GOSPODOVA zoper mesto in je napravila silno veliko zmešnjavo, ker je udaril ljudi v mestu, od najmanjšega do največjega, da so se jim tvori izpustili.

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.

¹⁰Pošljejo torej skrinjo Božjo v Ekron. Ali ko pride skrinja Božja v Ekron, zavpijejo Ekronci in reko: Prinesli so skrinjo Boga Izraelovega k nam, da nas pogubi in ljudstvo naše.

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.`

¹¹Pošljejo torej in skličejo vse kneze Filistejcev in reko: Odpošljite skrinjo Boga Izraelovega, da se povrne na mesto svoje, da ne pogubi nas in ljudstva našega! Kajti smrtna zmešnjava je bila po vsem mestu; roka Božja je bila pretežka ondi.In kateri niso umrli, so bili udarjeni s tvori; in vpitje iz mesta je šlo gori proti nebu.

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,

¹²In kateri niso umrli, so bili udarjeni s tvori; in vpitje iz mesta je šlo gori proti nebu.

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