{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_sa1005_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_sa1005_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_sa1005_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/poly/sa1005.htm","summary":"This is a parallel Bible text presenting 1 Samuel 5:1\u201312 in four versions side by side: the King James Version (with Strong's concordance numbers), the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Tanakh, and the Latin Vulgate. The passage narrates what happens after the Philistines capture the Ark of the Covenant and place it in the temple of their god Dagon at Ashdod: Dagon falls prostrate before the Ark twice, the second time with his head and hands severed at the threshold, which the text explains as the origin of a priestly taboo against stepping on Dagon's threshold that persisted \"to this day.\" The Philistines are then afflicted with tumors (translated variously as \"emerods,\" hemorrhoids, or tumors in the secret parts) as the Ark is shuttled between Ashdod, Gath, and Ekron, spreading death and panic at each city. The text presents Israel's God as actively and irresistibly asserting supremacy over a foreign deity on enemy territory, with the Philistine lords ultimately begging to return the Ark before it destroys them entirely. The notable comparative value of the four-column layout is textual: the Septuagint includes details absent from the Hebrew (mice infesting the land, ships being affected), the Vulgate adds the detail of leather seats the Gathites made for themselves, and the KJV's Strong's numbers make the Hebrew source terms traceable, together illustrating how transmission and translation shaped the received text.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: 1 Samuel: 1 Samuel 5","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":1420}