- DAGON’S HOUSE (1 Samuel 5:2), or Beth-dagon, as elsewhere rendered
(Joshua 15: 41; 19:27), was the sanctuary or temple of Dagon.
The Beth-dagon of Joshua 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 Joshua 19:27 was one of the border cities of
Asher.
That of 1 Chronicles 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 Samuel 31:8-13).
- DAILY SACRIFICE (Daniel 8:12; 11:31; 12:11), a burnt offering of two
lambs of a year old, which were daily sacrificed in the name of the whole
Israelitish people upon the great altar, the first at dawn of day, and the
second at evening (Daniel 9:21), or more correctly, “between the two
evenings.” (See SACRIFICE.) - DALE, THE KING’S the name of a valley, the alternative for “the valley
of Shaveh” (q.v.), near the Dead Sea, where the king of Sodom met
Abraham (Genesis 14:17). Some have identified it with the southern part
of the valley of Jehoshaphat, where Absalom reared his family monument
(2 Samuel 18:18). - DALMANUTHA a place on the west of the Sea of Galilee, mentioned
only in Mark 8:10. In the parallel passage it is said that Christ came “into
the borders of Magdala” (Matthew 15:39). It is plain, then, that
Dalmanutha was near Magdala, which was probably the Greek name of
one of the many Migdols (i.e., watch-towers) on the western side of the
lake of Gennesaret. It has been identified in the ruins of a village about a
mile from Magdala, in the little open valley of ‘Ain-el-Barideh, “the cold
fountain,” called el-Mejdel, possibly the “Migdal-el” of Joshua 19:38. - DALMATIA a mountainous country on the eastern shore of the Adriatic,
a part of the Roman province of Illyricum. It still bears its ancient name.
During Paul’s second imprisonment at Rome, Titus left him to visit
Dalmatia (2 Timothy 4:10) for some unknown purpose. Paul had himself
formerly preached in that region (Romans 15:19).
The present Emperor of Austria bears, among his other titles, that of
“King of Dalmatia.”