Israelites, supposing that their defeat in battle with the Philistines was due to their not having brought with them the ark of the covenant (1 Samuel 4:3; 4:10,11)
Philistines, refusing to step on the threshold of the temple of Dagon after the image of Dagon had repeatedly fallen upon it (1 Samuel 5:5)
The belief of the Syrians concerning the help of the gods (1 Kings 20:23)
Jews, attributing their calamities to having ceased offering sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven (Jeremiah 44:17-19)
Nebuchadnezzar, supposing that the spirit of the gods was upon Daniel (Daniel 4:8,9)
The sailors who threw Jonah into the sea (Jonah 1:4-16)
The disciples, supposing they saw a ghost when Jesus came walking upon the lake (Matthew 14:26; Mark 6:49,50)
Herod Antipas, imagining that Jesus was actually John the Baptist risen from the dead (Mark 6:14,16)
The Gadarenes (Gerasenes, Gergasenes), because Jesus expelled demons out of the man who lived among the tombs (Matthew 8:34)
The disciples who were frightened at the appearance of Peter (Acts 12:14,15)
