Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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
Bible References
Jabesh-gilead
1 Samuel 31:11
The people living in Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul.
Judges 21:8
When they asked if some group out of the tribes of Israel had not gone to the gathering at Mizpah, they found out that no one from Jabesh in Gilead had been there.
Make
Genesis 26:28
They answered: Now we know that Jehovah is with you. We think that there should be a solemn agreement between us. We want you to promise
Exodus 23:32
Do not make any agreement with them or with their gods.
Deuteronomy 23:3
No Ammonite or Moabite shall enter the assembly of Jehovah. Their descendants to the tenth generation shall not enter the assembly of Jehovah.
1 Kings 20:34
Benhadad said: The towns my father took from your father I will give back. You may name streets for yourself in Damascus as my father did in Samaria. As for me, at the price of this agreement you will let me go. So he made an agreement with him and let him go.
Job 41:4
Will he beg you to let him go? Will he plead with you for mercy?
Isaiah 36:16
Do not listen to Hezekiah, because this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me! Come out, and give yourselves up to me! Everyone will eat from his own grapevine and fig tree and drink from his own cistern.
Ezekiel 17:13
He took one of the royal family and made a covenant with him, putting him under oath. He also took away the mighty of the land,