1 Samuel 11:1

Good News Translation

About a month later King Nahash of Ammon led his army against the town of Jabesh in the territory of Gilead and besieged it. The men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a treaty with us, and we will accept you as our ruler.”

Cross References

Genesis 26:28

They answered, “Now we know that the Lord is with you, and we think that there should be a solemn agreement between us. We want you to promise

2 Samuel 10:1

Some time later King Nahash of Ammon died, and his son Hanun became king.

2 Samuel 10:2

King David said, “I must show loyal friendship to Hanun, as his father Nahash did to me.” So David sent messengers to express his sympathy. When they arrived in Ammon,

2 Samuel 17:27

When David arrived at Mahanaim, he was met by Shobi son of Nahash, from the city of Rabbah in Ammon, and by Machir son of Ammiel, from Lodebar, and by Barzillai, from Rogelim in Gilead.

2 Samuel 2:5

he sent some men there with the message: “May the Lord bless you for showing your loyalty to your king by burying him.

1 Kings 20:34

Benhadad said to him, “I will restore to you the towns my father took from your father, and you may set up a commercial center for yourself in Damascus, just as my father did in Samaria.” Ahab replied, “On these terms, then, I will set you free.” He made a treaty with him and let him go.

1 Chronicles 10:11

When the people of Jabesh in Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

1 Chronicles 10:12

the bravest men went and got the bodies of Saul and his sons and took them to Jabesh. They buried them there under an oak and fasted for seven days.

Job 41:4

Will he make an agreement with you and promise to serve you forever?

Exodus 23:32

Do not make any agreement with them or with their gods.

Isaiah 36:16

Don't listen to Hezekiah! The emperor of Assyria commands you to come out of the city and surrender. You will all be allowed to eat grapes from your own vines and figs from your own trees, and to drink water from your own wells—

Jeremiah 40:11

Meanwhile, all the Israelites who were in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and other countries, heard that the king of Babylonia had allowed some Israelites to stay on in Judah and that he had made Gedaliah their governor.

Jeremiah 40:14

and said to him, “Don't you know that King Baalis of Ammon has sent Ishmael to murder you?” But Gedaliah did not believe it.

Ezekiel 17:13

He took one of the king's family, made a treaty with him, and made him swear to be loyal. He took important men as hostages

Deuteronomy 23:3

“No Ammonite or Moabite—or any of their descendants, even in the tenth generation—may be included among the Lord's people.

Judges 10:7

So the Lord became angry with the Israelites, and let the Philistines and the Ammonites conquer them.

Judges 11:4

It was some time later that the Ammonites went to war against Israel.

Judges 21:8

When they asked if there was some group out of the tribes of Israel that had not gone to the gathering at Mizpah, they found out that no one from Jabesh in Gilead had been there;

1 Samuel 12:12

But when you saw that King Nahash of Ammon was about to attack you, you rejected the Lord as your king and said to me, ‘We want a king to rule us.’

1 Samuel 14:47

After Saul became king of Israel, he fought all his enemies everywhere: the people of Moab, of Ammon, and of Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he fought he was victorious.