Verse 1
1. Nahash the Ammonite From 1 Samuel 12:12, we learn that he was king of the children of Ammon, and also that a knowledge of his warlike intentions was one reason of Israel’s urgent request for a king to fight their battles for them. For the origin of the Ammonites see Genesis 19:38; and for their subsequent history, Judges 11:4-33.
Jabesh-gilead Gilead was the mountainous tract east of the Jordan bounded on the north by Bashan and on the south by the land of the Ammonites. Of this district Jabesh was the chief city, and is first mentioned Judges 21:8, in connexion with the vengeance wrought on its inhabitants for not participating in the tribal war against Benjamin. It was situated on the Wady Yabes, some six or eight miles east of the Jordan.
The inhabitants must have been at this time in a very defenceless condition, as is manifest from their desire to make a covenant with the invaders.
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