1 Samuel 11:2

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi Nahas, orang Amon itu, berkata kepada mereka: "Dengan syarat inilah aku akan mengadakan perjanjian dengan kamu, bahwa tiap mata kananmu akan kucungkil; dengan demikian aku mendatangkan malu kepada segenap orang Israel."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi Nahas, orang Amon itu, berkata kepada mereka: "Dengan syarat inilah aku akan mengadakan perjanjian dengan kamu, bahwa tiap mata kananmu akan kucungkil; dengan demikian aku mendatangkan malu kepada segenap orang Israel."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi kata Nahas, orang Ammoni itu, kepadanya: Hanya atas seperkara ini juga aku hendak berjanji-janjian dengan kamu, jikalau mata kanan kamu sekalian kucungkil dan dengan demikian peri kububuh arang di muka pada segenap bangsa Israel.

Contextual Overview

¹ Then Nahas ye Ammonite came vp, & besieged Iabes in Gilead: And all the men of Iabes sayd vnto Nahas, Make a couenaut with vs, and we wilbe thy seruauntes. ² And Nahas the Ammonite aunswered them: In this will I make a couenaunt with you, if I may thrust out al your right eyes, and bring that shame vpon all Israel. ³ To whom the elders of Iabes sayde: Geue vs seuen dayes respite, that we may sende messengers vnto all ye coastes of Israel: and then if there be no man to deliuer vs, we will come out to thee. ⁴ Then came the messengers to Gibea of Saul, and tolde this tydinges in the eares of the people: And all the people lift vp their voyces, and wept.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Genesis 10:10
The begynnyng of his kingdome was Babel, and Erech, & Arab, and Calueh, in the lande of Sinar.

Genesis 11:9
And therfore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord dyd there confounde the language of all the earth: and from thence dyd the Lorde scatter them abrode vpon the face of all the earth.

Genesis 13:11
Then Lot chose all the playne of Iordane, and toke his iourney from the east, and so departed the one [brother] from the other.

Genesis 14:1
And it came to passe in the dayes of Amraphel kyng of Sinar, Arioch kyng of Elasar, Chodorlaomer kyng of Elam, and Thidai kyng of the nations:

Isaiah 11:11
At the same time shall the Lord take in hande agayne to recouer the remnaunt of his people, whiche shalbe left aliue from the Assirians, Egyptians, Arabians, Morians, Elamites, Chaldees, Antiochians, & from the Ilandes of the sea,

Daniel 1:2
And the Lord deliuered Iehoachim the king of Iuda into his hande, with part of the vessels of the house of God, which he caried away into the lande of Sennar to the house of his God, and he brought the vessels into his gods treasurie.

Zechariah 5:11
And he saide vnto me: Into the land of Sinnaar to builde it an house, & it shal be established, & set there vpon her owne place.

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.