Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.
"Nahash the Ammonite"  (1 Samuel 11:1).  Lockyer identified two Biblical characters of this name: (1) the evil marauder here and (2) "The father of Shobi  (2 Samuel 10:2;  1 Chronicles 19:1,2) who is spoken of as a friend of David at a later time."[1]  The same scholar gave the meaning of Nahash as "serpent," or "oracle."