1 Samuel 11:2 - The Scriptures 1998

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But Nahash the Ammonite told them, On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I thrust out all your right eyes and thus lay disgrace on all Israel.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

“I will make a treaty with you on one condition: that everyone’s right eye be gouged out!” Nahash the Ammonite said to them. “That’s how I bring humiliation on all Israel.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And Nahash the Ammonite responded to them, "With this will I strike a pact with you: if I may pluck out all your right eyes, and set you as a disgrace against all of Israel."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Naas the Ammonite answered them: On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may pluck out all your right eyes, and make you a reproach in all Israel.

1 Samuel 11:2 Cross References

Genesis 34:14

And they said to them, “We are not able to do this matter, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us.

2 Kings 18:31

“Do not listen to Ḥ

Psalm 44:13

You make us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a mockery to those round about us.

Exodus 3:6

And He said, “I am the Elohim of your father, the Elohim of Aḇ

Proverbs 12:10

The righteous regards the life of his beast, But the compassion of the wrong is cruelty.

Jeremiah 39:7

And he put out the eyes of Tsiḏ

Numbers 16:14

“Also, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Would you bore out the eyes of these men? We are not coming up!”

Judges 16:21

So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Azzah, and bound him with bronze shackles. And he became a grinder in the prison.

1 Samuel 11:10

So the men of Yaḇ

1 Samuel 12:12

“And when you saw that Naḥ

1 Samuel 17:26

And Dawiḏ