Bible Cross References
Nahash
1 Samuel 12:12
But when you saw that King Nahash of Ammon was about to attack you, you rejected the LORD as your king and said to me, 'We want a king to rule us.'
Judges 10:7
So the LORD became angry with the Israelites, and let the Philistines and the Ammonites conquer them.
Judges 11:8-33
8
They said to Jephthah, "We are turning to you now because we want you to go with us and fight the Ammonites and lead all the people of Gilead."
9
Jephthah said to them, "If you take me back home to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives me victory, I will be your ruler."
10
They replied, "We agree. The LORD is our witness."
11
So Jephthah went with the leaders of Gilead, and the people made him their ruler and leader. Jephthah stated his terms at Mizpah in the presence of the LORD.
12
Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of Ammon to say, "What is your quarrel with us? Why have you invaded our country?"
13
The king of Ammon answered Jephthah's messengers, "When the Israelites came out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River and the Jordan River. Now you must give it back peacefully."
14
Jephthah sent messengers back to the king of Ammon
15
with this answer: "It is not true that Israel took away the land of Moab or the land of Ammon.
16
This is what happened: when the Israelites left Egypt, they went through the desert to the Gulf of Aqaba and came to Kadesh.
17
Then they sent messengers to the king of Edom to ask permission to go through his land. But the king of Edom would not let them. They also asked the king of Moab, but neither would he let them go through his land. So the Israelites stayed at Kadesh.
18
Then they went on through the desert, going around the land of Edom and the land of Moab until they came to the east side of Moab, on the other side of the Arnon River. They camped there, but they did not cross the Arnon because it was the boundary of Moab.
19
Then the Israelites sent messengers to Sihon, the Amorite king of Heshbon, and asked him for permission to go through his country to their own land.
20
But Sihon would not let Israel do it. He brought his whole army together, camped at Jahaz, and attacked Israel.
21
But the LORD, the God of Israel, gave the Israelites victory over Sihon and his army. So the Israelites took possession of all the territory of the Amorites who lived in that country.
22
They occupied all the Amorite territory from the Arnon in the south to the Jabbok in the north and from the desert on the east to the Jordan on the west.
23
So it was the LORD, the God of Israel, who drove out the Amorites for his people, the Israelites.
24
Are you going to try to take it back? You can keep whatever your god Chemosh has given you. But we are going to keep everything that the LORD, our God, has taken for us.
25
Do you think you are any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? He never challenged Israel, did he? Did he ever go to war against us?
26
For three hundred years Israel has occupied Heshbon and Aroer, and the towns around them, and all the cities on the banks of the Arnon River. Why haven't you taken them back in all this time?
27
No, I have not done you any wrong. You are doing wrong by making war on me. The LORD is the judge. He will decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites."
28
But the king of Ammon paid no attention to this message from Jephthah.
29
Then the spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah. He went through Gilead and Manasseh and returned to Mizpah in Gilead and went on to Ammon.
30
Jephthah promised the LORD: "If you will give me victory over the Ammonites,
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I will burn as an offering the first person that comes out of my house to meet me, when I come back from the victory. I will offer that person to you as a sacrifice."
32
So Jephthah crossed the river to fight the Ammonites, and the LORD gave him victory.
33
He struck at them from Aroer to the area around Minnith, twenty cities in all, and as far as Abel Keramim. There was a great slaughter, and the Ammonites were defeated by Israel.
Jabesh-gilead
1 Samuel 31:11-13
11
When the people of Jabesh in Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,
12
the bravest men started out and marched all night to Beth Shan. They took down the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall, brought them back to Jabesh, and burned them there.
13
Then they took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in town, and fasted for seven days.
Judges 21:8
When they asked if there was some group out of the tribes of Israel that had not gone to the gathering at Mizpah, they found out that no one from Jabesh in Gilead had been there;
Judges 21:10-25
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So the assembly sent twelve thousand of their bravest men with the orders, "Go and kill everyone in Jabesh, including women and children.
11
Kill all the males, and also every woman who is not a virgin."
12
They found four hundred young virgins among the people in Jabesh, so they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
13
Then the whole assembly sent word to the Benjaminites who were at Rimmon Rock and offered to end the war.
14
The Benjaminites came back, and the other Israelites gave them the young women from Jabesh whom they had not killed. But there were not enough of them.
15
The people felt sorry for the Benjaminites because the LORD had broken the unity of the tribes of Israel.
16
So the leaders of the gathering said, "There are no more women in the tribe of Benjamin. What shall we do to provide wives for the men who are left?
17
Israel must not lose one of its twelve tribes. We must find a way for the tribe of Benjamin to survive,
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but we cannot allow them to marry our daughters, because we have put a curse on anyone who allows a Benjaminite to marry one of our daughters."
19
Then they thought, "The yearly festival of the LORD at Shiloh is coming soon." (Shiloh is north of Bethel, south of Lebonah, and east of the road between Bethel and Shechem.)
20
They told the Benjaminites, "Go and hide in the vineyards
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and watch. When the young women of Shiloh come out to dance during the festival, you come out of the vineyards. Each of you take a wife by force from among them and take her back to the territory of Benjamin with you.
22
If their fathers or brothers come to you and protest, you can tell them, 'Please let us keep them, because we did not take them from you in battle to be our wives. And since you did not give them to us, you are not guilty of breaking your promise.' "
23
The Benjaminites did this; each of them chose a wife from the young women who were dancing at Shiloh and carried her away. Then they went back to their own territory, rebuilt their towns, and lived there.
24
At the same time the rest of the Israelites left, and every man went back to his own tribe and family and to his own property.
25
There was no king in Israel at that time. Everyone did whatever they pleased.
Make
Genesis 26:28
They answered, "Now we know that the LORD is with you, and we think that there should be a solemn agreement between us. We want you to promise
Exodus 23:32
Do not make any agreement with them or with their gods.
Deuteronomy 23:3
"No Ammonite or Moabite---or any of their descendants, even in the tenth generation---may be included among the LORD's people.
1 Kings 20:34
Benhadad said to him, "I will restore to you the towns my father took from your father, and you may set up a commercial center for yourself in Damascus, just as my father did in Samaria." Ahab replied, "On these terms, then, I will set you free." He made a treaty with him and let him go.
Job 41:4
Will he make an agreement with you and promise to serve you forever?
Isaiah 36:16
Don't listen to Hezekiah! The emperor of Assyria commands you to come out of the city and surrender. You will all be allowed to eat grapes from your own vines and figs from your own trees, and to drink water from your own wells---
Ezekiel 17:13
He took one of the king's family, made a treaty with him, and made him swear to be loyal. He took important men as hostages