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Saul Defeats the Ammonites

11 About a month later,[a] King Nahash of Ammon led his army against the Israelite town of Jabesh-gilead. But all the citizens of Jabesh asked for peace. “Make a treaty with us, and we will be your servants,” they pleaded.

“All right,” Nahash said, “but only on one condition. I will gouge out the right eye of every one of you as a disgrace to all Israel!”

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Footnotes

  1. 11:1 As in Dead Sea Scroll 4QSama and Greek version; Masoretic Text lacks About a month later.

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