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1 . Ammonite king who encamped against Jabesh-gilead, and who tauntingly agreed to make its inhabitants tributary on condition that he should thrust out the right eye of each for a reproach on all Israel. Saul raised an army and the Ammonites were defeated. 1 Sam. 11: 1, 2; 1 Sam. 12: 12. Josephus relates that Nahash had successfully oppressed the tribes on the east of the Jordan, which gave him self- confidence in making his terms to Jabesh-gilead; and says that
Nahash was slain. Perhaps the same as the father of Hanun who insulted David's ambassadors. 2 Sam. 10: 2; 2 Sam. 17: 27; 1 Chr.
19: 1, 2.
2 . Apparently father or mother of Abigail and Zeruiah. 2 Sam. 17:
25. In 1 Chr. 2: 16 Abigail and Zeruiah are called the sisters of Jesse's sons. The Rabbis say that Nahash was another name for Jesse (as in the margin); others suppose Nahash was Jesse's wife; and again others judge that Nahash was a former husband of Jesse's wife.