KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
1 Samuel 11:2–5
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1 Samuel 11:2
2And 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.
2And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a couenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproch vpon all Israel.
1 Samuel 11:3
3And 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.
3And the Elders of Iabesh sayd vnto him, †Giue vs seuen daies respite, that we may send messengers vnto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to saue vs, we will come out to thee.
- Hebr. forbeare vs.
1 Samuel 11:4
4¶ Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.
4¶ Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the eares of the people: and all the people lift vp their voyces, and wept.
1 Samuel 11:5
5And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.
5And behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field, and Saul sayd, What aileth the people that they weep? and they told him the tidings of the men of Iabesh.
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DEFINED WORDS
1 Samuel 11:2
A person of Ammon or a member of the Ammonite people.
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Replied or responded; spoke in answer to a person, statement, or situation.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
State; a particular mode of being; applied to external circumstances, to the body, to the mind, and to things.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
To establish or enter into what the verse names.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · KJV usage
A solemn, binding agreement, pledge, or declared arrangement; in Scripture, especially one established by God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Straight, correct, just, proper, or belonging to a lawful claim; also the opposite of left.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, judgment, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828
Place or set down; also rested or remained in a recumbent position, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Shame; infamy; disgrace. That which is the cause of shame or disgrace.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
1 Samuel 11:3
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number following six and preceding eight.
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Defer, or delay the time, to breath in.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
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messengers
Persons who bear messages or errands; bearers of spoken or written communications or dispatches.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Borders, boundaries, or regions; in some contexts, shores.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To rescue, preserve, deliver, or keep from loss or danger.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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1 Samuel 11:4
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messengers
Persons who bear messages or errands; bearers of spoken or written communications or dispatches.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage
To tell: to say, relate, inform, count, or make known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The organ of hearing; also, the seed-bearing head of grain.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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1 Samuel 11:5
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A group of cattle or other animals kept or feeding together.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
To tell: to say, relate, inform, count, or make known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 2
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Open the full verse study26And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
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Open the full verse study14And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
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Open the full verse study14Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.
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Open the full verse study31Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
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Open the full verse study6Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
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Open the full verse study7Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.
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Open the full verse study21¶ But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
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Open the full verse study10A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
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Open the full verse study26¶ And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
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Open the full verse study4And it came to pass, when the angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
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Open the full verse study34¶ Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.
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Open the full verse study4Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
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Open the full verse study2And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
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Open the full verse study2Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
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Open the full verse study26And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
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Open the full verse study2And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;
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Open the full verse study6Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, whom the Lord did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
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Open the full verse study3Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
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Open the full verse study15Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
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Open the full verse study19¶ So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.
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Open the full verse study1NOW there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.
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Open the full verse study17And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
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Open the full verse study1THE burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
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Open the full verse study23And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?
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Open the full verse study71From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
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