1 Samuel 11:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, I will make an agreement with you on this condition, that all your right eyes are put out; so that I may make it a cause of shame to all Israel.

Cross References

Genesis 34:14

And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:

2 Kings 18:31

Do not give ear to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me; and everyone will be free to take the fruit of his vine and of his fig-tree, and the water of his spring;

Psalm 44:13

You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us.

Exodus 3:6

And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God.

Proverbs 12:10

An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.

Jeremiah 39:7

And more than this, he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and had him put in chains to take him away to Babylon.

Numbers 16:14

And more than this, you have not taken us into a land flowing with milk and honey, or given us a heritage of fields and vine-gardens: will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.

Judges 16:21

So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.

1 Samuel 11:10

So the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.

1 Samuel 12:12

And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.

1 Samuel 17:26

And David said to the men near him, What will be done to the man who overcomes this Philistine and takes away the shame from Israel? for who is this Philistine, a man without circumcision, that he has put shame on the armies of the living God?