Nahash

How Nave’s arranged it

• 1. An Ammonite king .Defeated by Saul at Jabesh-gilead1 Samuel 11:1–11
• Kindness of, to David, and death2 Samuel 10:12 Samuel 10:21 Chronicles 19:11 Chronicles 19:2
• 2. Probably identical with JESSE2 Samuel 17:25

The passages, in Bible order (6)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 6 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 1 Samuel 11:1–11

   Soon Nahash the Ammonite came up and laid siege to Jabesh-gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to him, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 11:1–112 voices

   “Then Nahash the Ammonite came up--Nahash ("serpent"); (see Jud 8:3). The Ammonites had long claimed the right of original possession in Gilead. Though repressed by Jephthah (Jud 11:33), they now, after ninety years, renew their pretensions; and it was the report of their threatened invasion that hastened the appointment of a king (1Sa 12:12).

   “Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead,....

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2. 2 Samuel 10:1

   Some time later, the king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son Hanun.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 10:12 voices

   “The king - In marginal reference. Nahash, king, etc. The interval between the two events, not less than 50 years, and possibly more, is against his being the same as the Nahash of 1Sa 11:1-15. The Ammonites are almost always spoken of as the children of Ammon, from the name of their first ancestor Ben-ammi Gen 19:38. Hanun - The equivalent of the Carthaginian Hanno, from the same root as the Hebrew, Hananiah, Johanan, Hannah, etc. The same name appears in composition with Baal in Baal-Hanan, an Aramean king Gen 36:38-39.

   “And it came to pass after this,....

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3. 2 Samuel 10:2

   And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent some of his servants to console Hanun concerning his father. But when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 10:22 voices

   “David, on leaving Gath, where his life was exposed to danger, found an asylum with the king of Moab; and as Nahash, king of the Ammonites, was his nearest neighbor, it may be that during the feud between Saul and David, he, through enmity to the former, was kind and hospitable to David.

   “Then said David, I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash,....

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4. 2 Samuel 17:25

   Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite who had married Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 17:252 voices

   “Amasa--By the genealogy it appears that this captain stood in the same relation to David as Joab, both being his nephews. Of course, Amasa was Absalom's cousin, and though himself an Israelite, his father was an Ishmaelite (1Ch 2:17). Nahash--is thought by some to be another name of Jesse, or according to others, the name of Jesse's wife.

   “Nahash - Nahash is the name of Jesse's wife, by whom he had this Abigail, as he had Zeruiah by another wife; so they were sisters by the father, but not by the mother.

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5. 1 Chronicles 19:1

   Some time later, Nahash king of the Ammonites died and was succeeded by his son.

   ›Commentary on 1 Chronicles 19:11 voice

   “Compare the marginal references and notes. The writer here adds one or two touches, and varies in one or two of the numbers.

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6. 1 Chronicles 19:2

   And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to console Hanun concerning his father. But when David’s servants arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him,

   ›Commentary on 1 Chronicles 19:21 voice

   “Hanun - A Philistine king of this name is mentioned in the Assyrian inscriptions as paying tribute to Tiglath-pileser and warring with Sargon.

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