2Sa 10:1 Cross References
2 Samuel 10:1
1: Some time after this, King Nahash of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun became king.
1 Samuel 11:1
- About a month later, King Nahash of Ammon led his army against the Israelite city of Jabesh-gilead. But 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!"
- "Give us seven days to send messengers throughout Israel!" replied the leaders of Jabesh. "If none of our relatives will come to save us, we will agree to your terms."
Judges 11:12
- Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of Ammon, demanding to know why Israel was being attacked.
- The king of Ammon answered Jephthah's messengers, "When the Israelites came out of Egypt, they stole my land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River and all the way to the Jordan. Now then, give back the land peaceably."
- Jephthah sent this message back to the Ammonite king:
- "This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not steal any land from Moab or Ammon.
- When the people of Israel arrived at Kadesh on their journey from Egypt after crossing the Red Sea,
Judges 10:7
- So the LORD burned with anger against Israel, and he handed them over to the Philistines and the Ammonites,
- who began to oppress them that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites east of the Jordan River in the land of the Amorites (that is, in Gilead).
- The Ammonites also crossed to the west side of the Jordan and attacked Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim. The Israelites were in great distress.
1 Chronicles 19:1
- Some time after this, King Nahash of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun became king.
- David said, "I am going to show complete loyalty to Hanun because his father, Nahash, was always completely loyal to me." So David sent ambassadors to express sympathy to Hanun about his father's death. But when David's ambassadors arrived in the land of Ammon,
- Hanun's advisers said to him, "Do you really think these men are coming here to honor your father? No! David has sent them to spy out the land so that they can come in and conquer it!"
- So Hanun seized David's ambassadors and shaved their beards, cut off their robes at the buttocks, and sent them back to David in shame.
- When David heard what had happened, he sent messengers to tell the men to stay at Jericho until their beards grew out, for they were very embarrassed by their appearance.