1 Samuel 5:2

5:2 The Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the temple of Dagon, where they positioned it beside Dagon.

1 Samuel 31:10

31:10 They placed Saul’s armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his corpse on the city wall of Beth Shan.


sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. See the note on the same term in 7:3.