1 Samuel 11:1
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Saul Defeats the Ammonites
11 Now (A)Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged (B)Jabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make (C)a covenant with us and we will serve you.”
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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
New American Standard Bible
The King Confirmed
12 But when you saw (A)that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon was coming against you, you said to me, ‘(B)No, but a king shall reign over us!’ (C)Yet the Lord your God was your king.
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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.
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