1 Samuel 11:1

New American Bible - revised edition

About a month later, Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead. All the people of Jabesh begged Nahash, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”

Cross References

Genesis 26:28

They answered: “We clearly see that the Lord has been with you, so we thought: let there be a sworn agreement between our two sides—between you and us. Let us make a covenant with you:

2 Samuel 10:1

After this, the king of the Ammonites died, and Hanun his son succeeded him as king.

2 Samuel 10:2

David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun, the son of Nahash, as his father showed kindness to me.” Therefore David sent his servants to Hanun to console him concerning his father. But when David’s servants had entered the land of the Ammonites,

2 Samuel 17:27

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

2 Samuel 2:5

So David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh-gilead and said to them: “May you be blessed by the Lord for having done this kindness to your lord Saul in burying him.

1 Kings 20:34

Ben-hadad said to him, “The cities my father took from your father I will restore, and you may set up bazaars for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” Ahab replied, “For my part, I will set you free on those terms.” So he made a covenant with him and then set him free. Prophetic Condemnation.

1 Chronicles 10:11

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

1 Chronicles 10:12

all their warriors set out, recovered the corpses of Saul and his sons, and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their bones under the oak of Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.

Job 41:4

I need hardly mention his limbs, his strength, and the fitness of his equipment.

Exodus 23:32

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

Isaiah 36:16

Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: Make peace with me and surrender to me! Eat, each of you, from your vine, each from your own fig tree. Drink water, each from your own well,

Jeremiah 40:11

Then all the Judahites in Moab, in Ammon, in Edom, and those in all other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had set over them Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan.

Jeremiah 40:14

and said to him, “Surely you are aware that Baalis, the Ammonite king, has sent Ishmael, son of Nethaniah, to assassinate you?” But Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, would not believe them.

Ezekiel 17:13

After removing the nobles from the land, he then took one of the royal line And made a covenant with him, binding him under oath,

Deuteronomy 23:3

No one born of an illicit union may come into the assembly of the Lord, nor any descendant of such even to the tenth generation may come into the assembly of the Lord.

Judges 10:7

the Lord became angry with Israel and he sold them into the power of the Philistines and the Ammonites.

Judges 11:4

Some time later, the Ammonites went to war with Israel.

Judges 21:8

And when they asked, “Is there one among the tribes of Israel who did not come up to the Lord in Mizpah?” they found that none of the men of Jabesh-gilead had come to the encampment for the assembly.

1 Samuel 12:12

Yet, when you saw Nahash, king of the Ammonites, advancing against you, you said to me, ‘No! A king must rule us,’ even though the Lord your God is your king. Warnings for People and King.

1 Samuel 14:47

After taking possession of the kingship over Israel, Saul waged war on its enemies all around—Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he was successful