the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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1 Samuel 11:2
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On this: 2 Kings 18:31
thrust: Judges 16:21, Exodus 3:6, Proverbs 12:10, Jeremiah 39:7
reproach: 1 Samuel 17:26, Genesis 34:14
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 11:10 - To morrow 1 Samuel 11:11 - slew 1 Samuel 12:12 - Nahash 1 Chronicles 19:1 - Nahash Nehemiah 2:17 - a reproach Nehemiah 4:7 - the Ammonites Amos 1:13 - and for
Cross-References
The beginning of his kingdom was Bavel, Erekh, Akkad, and Kalneh, in the land of Shin`ar.
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Now, the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
At first Nimrod's kingdom covered Babylon, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Babylonia.
The primary regions of his kingdom were Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar.
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar [in Babylonia].
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
And the beginning of his kingdome was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
The beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
His kingdom began with Bavel, Erekh, Akkad and Kalneh, in the land of Shin‘ar.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Nahash the Ammonite answered them,.... In a very haughty and scornful manner:
on this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes; some Jewish writers go into a mystical and allegorical sense of these words, as that Nahash ordered the book of the law to be brought, which was their right eye, that he might erase out of it these words,
an Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; others understand it of the sanhedrim, which were the eyes of Israel; and others, which come a little nearer to the sense, of the slingers and archers, the desire of the eyes of Israel; and who, by having their right eyes thrust out, would be in a great measure spoiled for taking aim; for the words are to be understood literally; the intention of Nahash was to disable them for war, and that they might become quite unfit for it, as Josephus observes r; the left eye being under the shield, as it usually was in war, and the right eye plucked out, they would be as blind men: he did not choose to have both their eyes thrust out, for then they could have been of no use and service to him as slaves or tributaries:
and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel; that they did not come up to the relief of their brethren, and defend them, and signifying that they must all expect the same treatment from him.
r Antiqu. l. 6. c. 5. sect. 1.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Samuel 11:2. I may thrust out all your right eves — This cruel condition would serve at once as a badge of their slavery, and a means of incapacitating them from being effective warriors. Theodoret observes, "He who opposes his shield to the enemy with his left hand, thereby hides his left eye, and looks at his enemy with his right eye; he therefore who plucks out that right eye makes men useless in war." Josephus gives the same reason.
