1 Samuel 11:1
And, about a month afterward, it happened that Nahash the Ammonite ascended and began to fight against Jabesh Gilead. And all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Consider a pact with us, and we will serve you.”
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Exodus 23:32You shall not enter into a pact with them, nor with their gods.
Judges 10:7And the Lord, becoming angry against them, delivered them into the hands of the Philistines and the sons of Ammon.
Judges 11:8And the leaders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “But it is due to this necessity that we have approached you now, so that you may set out with us, and fight against the sons of Ammon, and be commander over all who live in Gilead.”
Judges 21:10And so they sent ten thousand very robust men, and they instructed them, saying, “Go and strike down the inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead with the edge of the sword, including their wives and little ones.”
1 Samuel 31:11And when the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead had heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,
2 Samuel 10:1Now after these things, it happened that the king of the sons of Ammon died, and his son Hanun reigned after him.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 11:1
In this chapter we have the first-fruits of Saul's government, in the glorious rescue of Jabesh-Gilead out of the hands of the Ammonites. Let not Israel thence infer that therefore they did well to ask a king (God could and would have saved them without one); but let them admire God's goodness, that he did not reject them when they rejected him, and acknowledge his wisdom in the choice of the person whom, if he did not find fit, yet he made fit, for the great trust he called him to, and enabled, in some measure,… Read the whole commentary →