Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
On this
Reproach
Bible References
On this
2 Kings 18:31
Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, “Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,
Thrust
Judges 16:21
Then the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze chains, and he was a grinder in the prison.
Exodus 3:6
He said also, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
Proverbs 12:10 A righteous man has regard for the life of his animal,
But even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.
But even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.
Jeremiah 39:7
He then blinded Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters of bronze to bring him to Babylon.
Reproach
1 Samuel 17:26
Then David spoke to the men who were standing by him, saying, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should taunt the armies of the living God?”
Genesis 34:14
They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.