1 Samuel 11:2
And Nahash 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 upon all Israel.
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Genesis 34:14and said to them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that is a reproach to us.
Numbers 16:14Moreover thou have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will thou put out the eyes of these men? We will not come up.
1 Samuel 11:10Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, and ye shall do with us all that seems good to you.
2 Kings 18:31Do not hearken to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me. And eat ye every man of his vine, and every man of his fig tree, and drink ye every man the waters of his own cistern,
Jeremiah 39:7Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 11:2-5
Extremity of Jabesh-Gilead. ( b. c. 1069.) 1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee. 2 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. 3 And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and… Read the whole commentary →