1 Samuel 11:2

World English Bible (2000)

Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this condition I will make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach on all Israel."

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  • 1 Sam 17:26 : 26 David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, "What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?"
  • Gen 34:14 : 14 and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
  • Num 16:14 : 14 Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? We won't come up."
  • Judg 16:21 : 21 The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
  • Exod 3:6 : 6 Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.
  • 2 Kgs 18:31 : 31 Don't listen to Hezekiah.' For thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern;
  • Prov 12:10 : 10 A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
  • Jer 39:7 : 7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

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  • 1 Sam 11:1
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    1Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you."

  • 1 Sam 11:3
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    3The elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven day, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you."

  • 1 Sam 11:10-11
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    10Therefore the men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you."

    11It was so on the next day, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it happened, that those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

  • 1 Chr 19:1
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    1It happened after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his place.

  • Judg 11:12-15
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    69%

    12Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, "What have you to do with me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?"

    13The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably."

    14Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the children of Ammon;

    15and he said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn't take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,

  • Josh 9:11
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    11Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, 'Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, "We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us."'

  • Judg 10:9
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    9The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was very distressed.

  • Judg 11:36
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    36She said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to Yahweh; do to me according to that which has proceeded out of your mouth, because Yahweh has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon."

  • Judg 11:27
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    27I therefore have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me. Yahweh, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon."

  • 1 Sam 12:12
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    12"When you saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, you said to me, 'No, but a king shall reign over us;' when Yahweh your God was your king.

  • Judg 11:4-6
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    68%

    4It happened after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

    5It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob;

    6and they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon."

  • Judg 10:17-18
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    17Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpah.

    18The people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, "What man is he who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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    11behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

  • 2 Kgs 14:11
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    11But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

  • Judg 11:30
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    30Jephthah vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, "If you will indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

  • Zech 11:17
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    17Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!"

  • Judg 11:32
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    32So Jephthah passed over to the children of Ammon to fight against them; and Yahweh delivered them into his hand.

  • 2 Sam 10:19
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    19When all the kings who were servants to Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.

  • 2 Sam 21:5
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    5They said to the king, "The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

  • Ezek 25:10
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    10to the children of the east, [to go] against the children of Ammon; and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.

  • 2 Chr 29:10
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    10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

  • Judg 11:8-10
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    9Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh deliver them before me, shall I be your head?"

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    2Son of man, set your face toward the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them:

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  • Jer 49:1
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    15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

  • Jer 44:11
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  • Num 21:2
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