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Nahash

Bible verses about Nahash in the King James Version.

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Nave’s Topical Bible

1. An Ammonite king .Defeated by Saul at Jabesh-gilead

  • 1 Samuel 11:1–11

    Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh-gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee. And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel. And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee. …

Kindness of, to David, and death

  • 2 Samuel 10:1

    And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.

  • 2 Samuel 10:2

    Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

  • 1 Chronicles 19:1

    Now it came to pass after this, that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.

  • 1 Chronicles 19:2

    And David said, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

2. Probably identical with JESSE

  • 2 Samuel 17:25

    And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.