Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Dagon was the national idol of the Philistines I Chronicles 10:10, so called from Dag, a fish. The description of Dagon, in his temple at Ashdod I Samuel 5:4, exactly agrees with the representations of a fish-god on the walls of Khorsabad, on slabs at Kouyunjik, and on sundry antique cylinders and gems. In these the figures vary. Some have a human form down to the waist, with that of a fish below the waist; others have a human head, arms, and legs, growing, as it were, out of a fish' s body, and so arranged that the fish' s head forms a kind of mitre to the man' s head, while the body and fins form a kind of cloak, hanging down behind.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Samuel 5:2
Amos 1:8
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