1 Samuel 11:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your [a]right eyes, and bring that shame upon all Israel.
3 To whom the Elders of Jabesh said, Give us seven days respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then if no man deliver us, we will come out to thee.
4 ¶ Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told these tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lift up their voices and wept.
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- 1 Samuel 11:2 This declareth that the more near the tyrants are to their destruction, the more cruel they are.
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