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1 Samuel 11:1
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1 Samuel 11:1
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Saul Rescues the City of Jabesh
11 Nahash[a](A) the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh Gilead.(B) And all the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty(C) with us, and we will be subject to you.”
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- 1 Samuel 11:1 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls gifts. Now Nahash king of the Ammonites oppressed the Gadites and Reubenites severely. He gouged out all their right eyes and struck terror and dread in Israel. Not a man remained among the Israelites beyond the Jordan whose right eye was not gouged out by Nahash king of the Ammonites, except that seven thousand men fled from the Ammonites and entered Jabesh Gilead. About a month later, 1 Nahash
1 Samuel 12:12
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1 Samuel 12:12
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12 “But when you saw that Nahash(A) king(B) of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we want a king to rule(C) over us’—even though the Lord your God was your king.
Ezekiel 17:13
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Ezekiel 17:13
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13 Then he took a member of the royal family and made a treaty(A) with him, putting him under oath.(B) He also carried away the leading men(C) of the land,
1 Kings 20:34
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1 Kings 20:34
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Judges 21:8
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Judges 21:8
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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(A) had come to the camp for the assembly.
Genesis 26:28
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Genesis 26:28
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28 They answered, “We saw clearly that the Lord was with you;(A) so we said, ‘There ought to be a sworn agreement between us’—between us and you. Let us make a treaty(B) with you
Job 41:4
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Job 41:4
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4 Will it make an agreement with you
for you to take it as your slave for life?(A)
Exodus 23:32
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Exodus 23:32
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32 Do not make a covenant(A) with them or with their gods.
Isaiah 36:16
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Isaiah 36:16
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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(A) and drink water from your own cistern,(B)
1 Samuel 31:11-13
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1 Samuel 31:11-13
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11 When the people of Jabesh Gilead(A) heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, 12 all their valiant men(B) marched through the night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth Shan and went to Jabesh, where they burned(C) them. 13 Then they took their bones(D) and buried them under a tamarisk(E) tree at Jabesh, and they fasted(F) seven days.(G)
Judges 21:10-25
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Judges 21:10-25
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10 So the assembly sent twelve thousand fighting men with instructions to go to Jabesh Gilead and put to the sword those living there, including the women and children. 11 “This is what you are to do,” they said. “Kill every male(A) and every woman who is not a virgin.(B)” 12 They found among the people living in Jabesh Gilead four hundred young women who had never slept with a man, and they took them to the camp at Shiloh(C) in Canaan.
13 Then the whole assembly sent an offer of peace(D) to the Benjamites at the rock of Rimmon.(E) 14 So the Benjamites returned at that time and were given the women of Jabesh Gilead who had been spared. But there were not enough for all of them.
15 The people grieved for Benjamin,(F) because the Lord had made a gap in the tribes of Israel. 16 And the elders of the assembly said, “With the women of Benjamin destroyed, how shall we provide wives for the men who are left? 17 The Benjamite survivors must have heirs,” they said, “so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.(G) 18 We can’t give them our daughters as wives, since we Israelites have taken this oath:(H) ‘Cursed be anyone who gives(I) a wife to a Benjamite.’ 19 But look, there is the annual festival of the Lord in Shiloh,(J) which lies north of Bethel(K), east of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem,(L) and south of Lebonah.”
20 So they instructed the Benjamites, saying, “Go and hide in the vineyards 21 and watch. When the young women of Shiloh come out to join in the dancing,(M) rush from the vineyards and each of you seize one of them to be your wife. Then return to the land of Benjamin. 22 When their fathers or brothers complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Do us the favor of helping them, because we did not get wives for them during the war. You will not be guilty of breaking your oath because you did not give(N) your daughters to them.’”
23 So that is what the Benjamites did. While the young women were dancing,(O) each man caught one and carried her off to be his wife. Then they returned to their inheritance(P) and rebuilt the towns and settled in them.(Q)
24 At that time the Israelites left that place and went home to their tribes and clans, each to his own inheritance.
25 In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.(R)
Judges 11:8-33
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Judges 11:8-33
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8 The elders of Gilead said to him, “Nevertheless, we are turning to you now; come with us to fight the Ammonites, and you will be head(A) over all of us who live in Gilead.”
9 Jephthah answered, “Suppose you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the Lord gives them to me—will I really be your head?”
10 The elders of Gilead replied, “The Lord is our witness;(B) we will certainly do as you say.” 11 So Jephthah went with the elders(C) of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And he repeated(D) all his words before the Lord in Mizpah.(E)
12 Then Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king with the question: “What do you have against me that you have attacked my country?”
13 The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon(F) to the Jabbok,(G) all the way to the Jordan. Now give it back peaceably.”
14 Jephthah sent back messengers to the Ammonite king, 15 saying:
“This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take the land of Moab(H) or the land of the Ammonites.(I) 16 But when they came up out of Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea[a](J) and on to Kadesh.(K) 17 Then Israel sent messengers(L) to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Give us permission to go through your country,’(M) but the king of Edom would not listen. They sent also to the king of Moab,(N) and he refused.(O) So Israel stayed at Kadesh.
18 “Next they traveled through the wilderness, skirted the lands of Edom(P) and Moab, passed along the eastern side(Q) of the country of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon.(R) They did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was its border.
19 “Then Israel sent messengers(S) to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon,(T) and said to him, ‘Let us pass through your country to our own place.’(U) 20 Sihon, however, did not trust Israel[b] to pass through his territory. He mustered all his troops and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel.(V)
21 “Then the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and his whole army into Israel’s hands, and they defeated them. Israel took over all the land of the Amorites who lived in that country, 22 capturing all of it from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the desert to the Jordan.(W)
23 “Now since the Lord, the God of Israel, has driven the Amorites out before his people Israel, what right have you to take it over? 24 Will you not take what your god Chemosh(X) gives you? Likewise, whatever the Lord our God has given us,(Y) we will possess. 25 Are you any better than Balak son of Zippor,(Z) king of Moab? Did he ever quarrel with Israel or fight with them?(AA) 26 For three hundred years Israel occupied(AB) Heshbon, Aroer,(AC) the surrounding settlements and all the towns along the Arnon. Why didn’t you retake them during that time? 27 I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me. Let the Lord, the Judge,(AD) decide(AE) the dispute this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites.(AF)”
28 The king of Ammon, however, paid no attention to the message Jephthah sent him.
29 Then the Spirit(AG) of the Lord came on Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah(AH) of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites.(AI) 30 And Jephthah made a vow(AJ) to the Lord: “If you give the Ammonites into my hands, 31 whatever comes out of the door of my house to meet me when I return in triumph(AK) from the Ammonites will be the Lord’s, and I will sacrifice it as a burnt offering.(AL)”
32 Then Jephthah went over to fight the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into his hands. 33 He devastated twenty towns from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith,(AM) as far as Abel Keramim. Thus Israel subdued Ammon.
Footnotes
- Judges 11:16 Or the Sea of Reeds
- Judges 11:20 Or however, would not make an agreement for Israel
Judges 10:7
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Judges 10:7
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7 he became angry(A) with them. He sold them(B) into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites,
Deuteronomy 23:3
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Deuteronomy 23:3
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3 No Ammonite(A) or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, not even in the tenth generation.(B)
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