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Samuel grew up. Yahweh was with him and did not let a single word fall to the ground of all that he had told him. (1 Samuel 3, 19)
and, for all Israel, the word of Samuel was as the word of Yahweh; since Eli was very old and his sons persisted in their wicked behaviour towards Yahweh. It happened at that time that the Philistines mustered to make war on Israel and Israel went out to meet them in war, pitching camp near Ebenezer while the Philistines pitched camp at Aphek. (1 Samuel 4, 1)
So the Philistines gave battle and Israel was defeated, each man fleeing to his tent. The slaughter was very great: on the Israelite side, thirty thousand foot soldiers fell. (1 Samuel 4, 10)
When he arrived, Eli was sitting on his seat beside the gate watching the road, for his heart was trembling for the ark of God. The man came into the town and told the news, whereupon cries of anguish filled the town. (1 Samuel 4, 13)
Eli heard the sound and asked, 'What does this uproar mean?' The man hurried on and told Eli. (1 Samuel 4, 14)
Eli was ninety-eight years old; his gaze was fixed; he was blind. (1 Samuel 4, 15)
When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backwards off his seat by the gate and broke his neck and died, for he was old and heavy. He had been judge of Israel for forty years. (1 Samuel 4, 18)
But when they got up on the following morning, there lay Dagon face down on the ground before the ark of Yahweh, and Dagon's head and two hands lay severed on the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left in its place. (1 Samuel 5, 4)
This is why the priests of Dagon and the people frequenting Dagon's temple never step on Dagon's threshold in Ashdod, even today. (1 Samuel 5, 5)
They then asked, 'What guilt offering ought we to pay him?' They replied, 'Corresponding to the number of Philistine chiefs: five golden tumours and five golden rats, since the same plague afflicted your chiefs as the rest of you. (1 Samuel 6, 4)
Then take the ark of Yahweh, place it on the cart, and put the golden objects which you are paying him as guilt offering in a box beside it; and then send it off on its own. (1 Samuel 6, 8)
They then put the ark of Yahweh on the cart, with the box and the golden rats and the models of their tumours. (1 Samuel 6, 11)
