Bible Dictionary · D
Dagon’s house
(1 Sam 5:2), or Beth-dagon, as elsewhere rendered (Josh 15:1–63: 41; Josh 19:27), was the sanctuary or temple of Dagon.
The Beth-dagon of Josh 15:41 was one of the cities of the tribe of Judah, in the lowland or plain which stretches westward. It has not been identified.
The Beth-dagon of Josh 19:27 was one of the border cities of Asher.
That of 1 Chr 10:10 was in the western half-tribe of Manasseh, where the Philistines, after their victory at Gilboa, placed Saul’s head in the temple of their god. (Comp. 1 Sam 31:8–13).
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
