1 Samuel 11:2

New American Bible - revised edition

But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “This is my condition for making a treaty with you: I will gouge out the right eye of every man, and thus bring shame on all Israel.”

Cross References

Genesis 34:14

They said to them, “We are not able to do this thing: to give our sister to an uncircumcised man. For that would be a disgrace for us.

2 Kings 18:31

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,

Psalm 44:13

You sell your people for nothing; you make no profit from their sale.

Exodus 3:6

I am the God of your father, he continued, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. The Call and Commission of Moses.

Proverbs 12:10

The just take care of their livestock, but the compassion of the wicked is cruel.

Jeremiah 39:7

He then blinded Zedekiah and bound him in chains to bring him to Babylon.

Numbers 16:14

Far from bringing us to a land flowing with milk and honey, or giving us fields and vineyards for our inheritance, will you gouge out our eyes? No, we will not go.”

Judges 16:21

But the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. Then they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze fetters, and he was put to grinding grain in the prison.

1 Samuel 11:10

The men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Tomorrow we will surrender to you, and you may do with us whatever you want.”

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 17:26

David now said to the men standing near him: “How will the man who kills this Philistine and frees Israel from disgrace be rewarded? Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should insult the armies of the living God?”