<p class="bodytext">And early<n id="1" /> in the morning they went up to the crest of the hill country,<n id="2" /> saying, &#8220;Here we are, and we will go up to the place that the <sc>Lordsc> commanded,<n id="3" /> for we have sinned.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">They got up early the next morning and after worshiping the <sc>Lordsc>, they returned to their home at Ramah. Elkanah had marital relations with<n id="1" /> his wife Hannah, and the <sc>Lordsc> remembered<n id="2" /> her.

When the residents of Ashdod got up early the next day,<n id="1" /> Dagon was lying on the ground before the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place.

<p class="bodytext">On the seventh day they were up at the crack of dawn<n id="1" /> and marched around the city as before &#8211; only this time they marched around it seven times.<n id="2" />

But when they got up early the following day, Dagon was again lying on the ground before the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>. The head of Dagon and his two hands were sheared off and were lying at the threshold. Only Dagon&#8217;s body was left intact.<n id="1" />

They got up at dawn and Samuel called to Saul on the roof, &#8220;Get up, so I can send you on your way.&#8221; So Saul got up and the two of them &#8211; he and Samuel &#8211; went outside.