1 Samuel 11:1

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Summary

Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.

Jabesh-gilead

1 Samuel 31:11

Judges 21:8

Make

Ezekiel 17:13

Bible References

Jabesh-gilead

And when the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;

And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpah to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.

Make

And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with you: and we said, Let there be now an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you;

You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD forever:

And Ben-hadad said unto him, The cities, which my father took from your father, I will restore; and you shall make streets for yourself in Damascus, as my father made in Samaria. Then said Ahab, I will send you away with this covenant. So he made a covenant with him, and sent him away.

Will he make a covenant with you? will you take him for a servant forever?

Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus says the king of Assyria, Make peace with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and drink you everyone the waters of his own cistern;

And has taken the king's descendant, and made a covenant with him, and has taken an oath from him: he has also taken the mighty of the land: