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1 Samuel 11:1

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Nahash  , the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead.  All the men of Jabesh said to him, ‘Make a treaty  with us, and we will serve you.’

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But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was coming against you, you said to me, “No, we must have a king reign over us” #– #even though the Lord your God is your king.


He took one of the royal family  and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath.  Then he took away the leading men of the land,


Then Ben-hadad said to him, ‘I restore to you the cities that my father took from your father,  and you may set up marketplaces for yourself in Damascus, like my father set up in Samaria.’ Ahab responded, ‘On the basis of this treaty, I release you.’ So he made a treaty with him and released him.


They asked, ‘Which city among the tribes of Israel didn’t come to the Lord at Mizpah? ’ It turned out that no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp and the assembly.


They replied, ‘We have clearly seen how the Lord has been with you. We think there should be an oath between two parties #– #between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you:


Will he make a covenant with you so that you can take him as a slave for ever?


You must not make a covenant  with them or their gods.


Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: ‘Make peace  with me and surrender to me. Then every one of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree  and drink water from his own cistern


So the Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and he sold them to the Philistines and the Ammonites.


No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the Lord’s assembly;  none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, may ever enter the Lord’s assembly.


When Saul assumed the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies in every direction: against Moab, the Ammonites,  Edom, the kings of Zobah,  and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he caused havoc.


Some time later, the king of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun became king in his place.


Then David said, ‘I’ll show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.’ So David sent his emissaries to console Hanun concerning his father. However, when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,


When David came to Mahanaim, Shobi son of Nahash  from Rabbah  of the Ammonites, Machir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar,  and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim


When all the Judeans in Moab  and among the Ammonites and in  Edom and in all the other lands  also heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, over them,


and warned him, ‘Don’t you realise that Baalis, king of the Ammonites, has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah  to kill you? ’ But Gedaliah son of Ahikam would not believe them.


Some time later, the Ammonites fought against Israel.


David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead and said to them, ‘The Lord bless you because you have shown this kindness to Saul your lord when you buried him.


When all Jabesh-gilead heard of everything the Philistines had done to Saul,


all their brave men set out and retrieved the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the oak  in Jabesh  and fasted for seven days.





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