1 Samuel 11:2
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.”
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Genesis 34:14“We are not able to do what you ask, nor to give our sister to an uncircumcised man. For us, this is unlawful and abominable.
Numbers 16:14You have led us, it is true, to a land that flows with streams of milk and honey, and you have given us possession of fields and vineyards. But will you also tear out our eyes? We will not come.”
1 Samuel 11:10And they said, “In the morning, we will go out to you. And you may do whatever you please with us.”
2 Kings 18:31Do not choose to listen to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of the Assyrians: Do with me what is for your own good, and come out to me. And each one of you will eat from his own vine, and from his own fig tree. And you shall drink water from your own wells,
Jeremiah 39:7Also, he plucked out the eyes of Zedekiah. And he bound him with fetters, to be led away 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 →