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Saul Defeats the Ammonites

11 So after a month,[a] Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to[b] Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh told Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.”

Nahash the Ammonite told them, “I’ll make a covenant with you on the condition that I gouge out the right eye of every one of you and so bring disgrace on all Israel.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 11:1 So LXX and DSS 4QSama; the Heb. lacks after a month
  2. 1 Samuel 11:1 Lit. camped against