and said to them, *We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
1 Samuel 11:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Nachash the `Ammonite said to them, On this condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach on all Yisra'el. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But Nahash the Ammonite told them, On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I thrust out all your right eyes and thus lay disgrace on all Israel. American Standard Version (1901) And Nahash the Ammonite said unto them, On this condition will I make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out; and I will lay it for a reproach upon all Israel. Common English Bible “I will make a treaty with you on one condition: that everyone’s right eye be gouged out!” Nahash the Ammonite said to them. “That’s how I bring humiliation on all Israel.” Catholic Public Domain Version And Nahash the Ammonite responded to them, "With this will I strike a pact with you: if I may pluck out all your right eyes, and set you as a disgrace against all of Israel." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Naas the Ammonite answered them: On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may pluck out all your right eyes, and make you a reproach in all Israel. |
and said to them, *We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
Don't listen to Chizkiyahu: for thus says the king of Ashur, Make your shalom with me, and come out to me; and eat you everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern;
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
Moreover he said, *I am the God of your father, the God of Avraham, the God of Yitzchak, and the God of Ya`akov.* Moshe hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.
A righteous man regards the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Moreover he put out Tzidkiyahu's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Bavel.
Moreover you haven't brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: will you put out the eyes of these men? we won't come up.
The Pelishtim laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to `Aza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
Therefore the men of Yavesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.
When you saw that Nachash the king of the children of `Ammon came against you, you said to me, No, but a king shall reign over us; when the LORD your God was your king.
David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man who kills this Pelishti, and takes away the reproach from Yisra'el? for who is this uncircumcised Pelishti, that he should defy the armies of the living God?