Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 11:2

2 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.

Partly for a Reproach, as it here follows; and partly, to disable them from managing offensive weapons in Battel; for their left Eye served onely, or chiefly for Defence, being covered by those large shields which then they used, and held in their left hand. He leaves them one Eye, that they might be fit to serve him in any mean and base office.

Marginal references: Hebr. [illegible: 1 word] See Exod. [illegible: 1 word] ▪ 32. Gen. 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. 18. Jer. 34. 1[illegible: 1+ letters].