What does 1 Samuel 5:2 mean?

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• 1 Chronicles 10:10

  And they put his armor in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.

• Judges 16:23

  And the lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.

• Daniel 5:2

  Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink therefrom.

• Daniel 5:23

  but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives and thy concubines, have drunk wine from them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know; and the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.

• Habakkuk 1:11

  Then shall he sweep by as a wind, and shall pass over, and be guilty, even he whose might is his god.

• Habakkuk 1:16

  Therefore he sacrificeth unto his net, and burneth incense unto his drag; because by them his portion is fat, and his food plenteous.

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