3 Then the Ashʹdod·ites got up early the very next day,* and there Daʹgon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of Jehovah.+ So they took* Daʹgon and returned him to his place.+

7 They carry it upon the shoulder,+ they bear it and deposit it in its place that it may stand still. From its standing place it does not move away.+ One even cries out to it, but it does not answer; out of one’s distress it does not save one.+

29 “Seeing, therefore, that we are the progeny of God,+ we ought not to imagine that the Divine Being*+ is like gold or silver or stone, like something sculptured by the art and contrivance of man.+