1 Samuel 11:1

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1 Samuel 11:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Soon Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”

2 But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you on one condition, that I may put out everyone’s right eye and bring reproach upon all Israel.”

3 “Hold off for seven days,” replied the elders of Jabesh, “and let us send messengers throughout Israel. If there is no one to save us, we will surrender to you.”

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1 Samuel 12:12

But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was moving against you, you said to me, ‘No, we must have a king to rule over us’—even though the LORD your God was your king.

Judges 10:7

So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and Ammonites,

Judges 11:8

They answered Jephthah, “This is why we now turn to you, that you may go with us, fight the Ammonites, and become leader over all of us who live in Gilead.”

Judges 11:9

But Jephthah asked them, “If you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me, will I really be your leader?”

Judges 11:10

And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD is our witness if we do not do as you say.”

Judges 11:11

So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their leader and commander. And Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the LORD at Mizpah.

Judges 11:12

Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, “What do you have against me that you have come to fight against my land?”

Judges 11:13

The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they seized my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”

Judges 11:14

Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites

Judges 11:15

to tell him, “This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or of the Ammonites.

Judges 11:16

But when Israel came up out of Egypt, they traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.

Judges 11:17

Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. They also sent messengers to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel stayed in Kadesh.

Judges 11:18

Then Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, since the Arnon was its border.

Judges 11:19

And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land into our own place.’

Judges 11:20

But Sihon would not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So he gathered all his people, encamped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.

Judges 11:21

Then the LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, who defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites who inhabited that country,

Judges 11:22

seizing all the land from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.

Judges 11:23

Now since the LORD, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites from before His people Israel, should you now possess it?

Judges 11:24

Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.

Judges 11:25

Are you now so much better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend with Israel or fight against them?

Judges 11:26

For three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages, as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon. Why did you not take them back during that time?

Judges 11:27

I have not sinned against you, but you have done me wrong by waging war against me. May the LORD, the Judge, decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”

Judges 11:28

But the king of the Ammonites paid no heed to the message Jephthah sent him.

Judges 11:29

Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, then through Mizpah of Gilead. And from there he advanced against the Ammonites.

Judges 11:30

Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hand,

Judges 11:31

then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”

Judges 11:32

So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the LORD delivered them into his hand.

Judges 11:33

With a great blow he devastated twenty cities from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel-keramim. So the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.

1 Samuel 31:11

When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

1 Samuel 31:12

all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.

1 Samuel 31:13

Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and they fasted seven days.

Judges 21:8

So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.

Judges 21:10

So the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.

Judges 21:11

This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”

Judges 21:12

So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

Judges 21:13

Then the whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjamites who were at the rock of Rimmon.

Judges 21:14

And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.

Judges 21:15

The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.

Judges 21:16

Then the elders of the congregation said, “What should we do about wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”

Judges 21:17

They added, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.

Judges 21:18

But we cannot give them our daughters as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to a Benjamite.”

Judges 21:19

“But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”

Judges 21:20

So they commanded the Benjamites: “Go, hide in the vineyards

Judges 21:21

and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

Judges 21:22

When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”

Judges 21:23

The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.

Judges 21:24

And at that time, each of the Israelites returned from there to his own tribe and clan, each to his own inheritance.

Judges 21:25

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Genesis 26:28

“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you

Exodus 23:32

You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

Deuteronomy 23:3

No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.

1 Kings 20:34

Ben-hadad said to him, “I will restore the cities my father took from your father; you may set up your own marketplaces in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” “By this treaty I release you,” Ahab replied. So he made a treaty with him and sent him away.

Job 41:4

Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

Isaiah 36:16

Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,

Ezekiel 17:13

He took a member of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. Then he carried away the leading men of the land,