1 Samuel 5:5
Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
Context
This verse from 1 Samuel Chapter 5 connects to 6 cross-references. The Philistines place the ark in the temple of Dagon in Ashdod; the next morning Dagon's statue is fallen before the ark, and the day after both hands and head are broken off. God strikes Ashdod and then Gath and …
Other Translations
Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, unto this day.
therefore 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.
So to this day no priest of Dagon, or any who come into Dagon's house, will put his foot on the doorstep of the house of Dagon in Ashdod.
Cross References
And the captain of the Lord’s host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place …
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
They that make them are like unto them: so is every one that trusteth in them.
In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses …