1Sa 11:1-3 | NASB1995 | STEP | Now Nahash the Ammonite came up and besieged Jabesh-gilead ; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash , “ Make a covenant with us and we will serve you.”

1 Samuel 11:1-3

1 Now ^aNahash the Ammonite came up and ^{▼▼ Lit camped against}besieged ^cJabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make ^da covenant with us and we will serve you.” 2 But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “I will make it with you on this condition, ^ethat I will gouge out the right eye of every one of you, thus I will make it ^fa reproach on all Israel.” 3 ^gThe elders of Jabesh said to him, “Let us alone for seven days, that we may send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to deliver us, we will come out to you.”