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.
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Gill's Exposition
And Nahash the Ammonite answered them,.... In a very haughty and scornful manner:
on this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes; some Jewish writers go…
Adam Clarke
I may thrust out all your right eves - This cruel condition would serve at once as a badge of their slavery, and a means of incapacitating them from being effective warriors. Theodoret observes, "He…
The Ammonites were bad neighbours to those tribes of Israel that lay next them, though descendants from just Lot, and, for that reason, dealt civilly with by Israel. See Deu 2:19. Jephthah, in his…
Cambridge Bible
that I may thrust out all your right eyes Such barbarities are not unknown in the East even now. Vambéry describes the blinding of prisoners as a regular practice at Khiva. Travels in Central Asia, p.…
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