1 Samuel 11:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

² And taking both the oxen, he cut them in pieces, and sent them into all the coasts of Israel by messengers, saying: Whosoever shall not come forth, and follow Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen. And the fear of the Lord fell upon the people, and they went out as one man.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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

² 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)

² 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

² “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

² 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."

1 Samuel 11:2 Cross References

1 Samuel 17:26

1 And the words which David spoke were heard, and were rehearsed before Saul.

Numbers 16:14

9 And had drawn up all the multitude against them to the door of the tabernacle, the glory of the Lord appeared to them all.

Genesis 34:14

5 But in this way may we be allied with you, if you will be like us, and all the male sex among you be circumcised:

Jeremiah 39:7

5 But the word of the Lord came to Jeremias, when he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying: Go, and tell Abdemelech the Ethiopian, saying:

Proverbs 12:10

7 He that speaketh that which he knoweth, sheweth forth justice: but he that lieth, is a deceitful witness.

2 Kings 18:31

6 But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for they had received commandment from the king that they should not answer him.

Judges 16:21

6 And he said to the lad that guided his steps: Suffer me to touch the pillars which support the whole house, and let me lean upon them, and rest a little.

Exodus 3:6

And knowing their sorrow, I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them out of that land into a good and spacious land, into a land that floweth with milk and honey, to the places of the Chanaanite, and Hethite, and Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Hevite, and Jebusite.

1 Samuel 12:12

7 Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call upon the Lord, and he shall send thunder and rain: and you shall know and see that you yourselves have done a great evil in the sight of the Lord, in desiring a king over you.

Psalm 44:13

0 For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction : and the shadow of death hath covered us.

1 Samuel 11:10

5 And all the people went to Galgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Galgal, and they sacrificed there victims of peace before the Lord. And there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced exceedingly