1 Samuel 11:1

New International Version

Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh Gilead. And all the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will be subject to you.”

Cross References

1 Samuel 12:12

“But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we want a king to rule over us’—even though the Lord your God was your king.

Ezekiel 17:13

Then he took a member of the royal family and made a treaty with him, putting him under oath. He also carried away the leading men of the land,

1 Kings 20:34

“I will return the cities my father took from your father,” Ben-Hadad offered. “You may set up your own market areas in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” Ahab said, “On the basis of a treaty I will set you free.” So he made a treaty with him, and let him go.

Judges 21:8

Then they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to assemble before the Lord at Mizpah?” They discovered that no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.

Genesis 26:28

They answered, “We saw clearly that the Lord was with you; so we said, ‘There ought to be a sworn agreement between us’—between us and you. Let us make a treaty with you

Job 41:4

Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?

Exodus 23:32

Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods.

Isaiah 36:16

“Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern,

Judges 10:7

he became angry with them. He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites,

Deuteronomy 23:3

No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.

1 Samuel 14:47

After Saul had assumed rule over Israel, he fought against their enemies on every side: Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he inflicted punishment on them.

2 Samuel 10:1

In the course of time, the king of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun succeeded him as king.

2 Samuel 10:2

David thought, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father. When David’s men came to the land of the Ammonites,

2 Samuel 17:27

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

Jeremiah 40:11

When all the Jews in Moab, Ammon, Edom and all the other countries heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as governor over them,

Jeremiah 40:14

and said to him, “Don’t you know that Baalis king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.

Judges 11:4

Some time later, when the Ammonites were fighting against Israel,

2 Samuel 2:5

he sent messengers to them to say to them, “The Lord bless you for showing this kindness to Saul your master by burying him.

1 Chronicles 10:11

When all the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

1 Chronicles 10:12

all their valiant men went and took the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones under the great tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.