Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Samuel 5:5

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Samuel 5:5 - 5:5

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Samuel 5:5 - 5:5

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

5:1 - 5:1
5:2 - 5:2
5:3 - 5:3
5:5 - 5:5
5:6 - 5:6
5:7 - 5:7
5:11 - 5:11
5:12 - 5:12

Therefore neither the priests ... nor any ... tread on the threshold of Dagon - A superstitious ceremony crept in, and in the providence of God was continued, by which the Philistines contributed to publish this proof of the helplessness of their god.

unto this day - The usage continued in practice at the time when this history was written - probably in the later years of Samuel’s life.