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Nahash, king of Ammon, would by ancient standards have access to the knowledge of the gods - a diviner - and he also would have associations with a brazen, shining appearance when dressed as king. In his introduction in the story of 1 Samuel 11, an ancient reader may have thematically viewed Nahash through the lens of the deceptive serpent that ...
Statue of an Ammonite deified King on display at the Jordan Museum.The statue was found near the Amman Citadel and is thought to date to 8th century BC.. The following is a list of rulers currently known from the history of the ancient Levantine kingdom Ammon.
Upon the death of his father Nahash, Hanun ascended to the throne of the Ammonites.When King David sent ambassadors to convey his condolences, Hanun listened to the suspicions of the "princes of the people of Ammon", reversed his father's pro-Davidic policy and humiliated the emissaries, stripping them of their clothes and shaving half of their beards.
Baalis, king of the Ammonites, envious of the Jewish colony's prosperity, or jealous of the might of the Babylonian king, instigated Ishmael, son of Nathaniel, "of the royal seed," to make an end of the Judean rule in Palestine, Ishmael, being an unscrupulous character, permitted himself to become the tool of the Ammonite king in order to ...
For this narrative, 4QSam a (among the Dead Sea Scrolls; from first century BCE) and the writing of Josephus from first century CE, provide a background information that Nahash king of the Ammonites have subdued Israel's Transjordanian tribes (Gadites and Reubenites) and gouged the right eye of his captives (cf. 11:2 for explanation), but 7000 Israelites escaped and hid in Jabesh-Gilead, so ...
Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had been grievously oppressing the Gadites and the Reubenites. He would gouge out the right eye of each of them and would not grant Israel a deliverer. No one was left of the Israelites across the Jordan whose right eye Nahash, king of the Ammonites, had not gouged out.
Jabesh-Gilead is a central setting of 1 Samuel 11.After Saul is anointed by Samuel, Nahash of Ammon attacks Jabesh-Gilead. Having subjected the town to a siege, its inhabitants sought terms for surrender, but were told by Nahash that they had a choice of death by sword or having their right eyes gouged out.
Shobi ben Nahash was the son of King Nahash of Ammon and brother of his predecessor Hanun. When Hanun was deposed by the Israelites under King David, Shobi was made king of Ammon in Hanun's place and became a loyal vassal of David's. See 2 Samuel 17:27, I Chronicles 19.