1 Samuel 11:2

Modern English Version

Nahash the Ammonite answered them, “On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may pluck out all your right eyes. So I will inflict it as a reproach upon all Israel.”

Cross References

Genesis 34:14

They said to them, “We cannot do this. To give our sister to one who is uncircumcised would be a disgrace to us.

2 Kings 18:31

“Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Submit to me; come out to me, so that every man may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

Psalm 44:13

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those around us.

Exodus 3:6

Moreover He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man tends to the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Jeremiah 39:7

He also put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him with chains to carry him to Babylon.

Numbers 16:14

Moreover you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.”

Judges 16:21

The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They took him down to Gaza, bound him with bronze chains, and he ground grain in prison.

1 Samuel 11:10

Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you may do to us all that seems good to you.”

1 Samuel 12:12

“When you saw that Nahash, king of the Ammonites, came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king will reign over us,’ when the Lord your God was your king.

1 Samuel 17:26

David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, “What will be done for the man that kills this Philistine and takes away this reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God?”