Saturday, August 30, 2008

Dagon

Dagon seems to have been a grain god of the Canaanites. It seems that the Philistines assimilated Dagon into their religious system. Dagon was ascribed to being the father of Baal by the Philistines.

As far as we can stretch a statement here, Dagon was also given an ability of military power over the area of which the Philistines resided. Dagon seems to have been risen to a status of being a high (if not the highest) deity by which the Philistines could communicate with, and Dagon was presumed to be the provider for their security and prosperity.

If Samson had minded his P's and Q's, then it would have been the Dannites that were singing praise to Yahweh, instead of the Philistines singing to Dagon, but Samson's hair growing back a little, and God bestowing on him power one last time, Samson destroyed the one's that sang a praise to Dagon.

The main undertone of Judges is the God (Yahweh) was building a nation out of the tribes he started with Jacob. One would like to see the transition into a full cohesive nation faster, but it seems to have taken centuries after Joshua to secure that.

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