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The Ark of the Covenant

The Ark of the Covenant



The ark of the covenant being returned by the Philistines (left; 1 Sam. 6:7–8) after it caused the statue of Dagon to break in front of his temple (right; 1 Sam. 5:2–5). Wall painting from the synagogue at Dura-Europos, third century CE.

Clifford, Richard J. “Dagon.” Ed. Mark Allan Powell. The Harper Collins Bible Dictionary (Revised and Updated) 2011 : 170. Print.

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