1 Samuel 11 And Nahash the Ammonite comes up, and encamps against Jabesh-Gilead, and all the men of Jabesh say unto Nahash, `Make with us a covenant, and we serve you..

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And Nahash the Ammonite comes up, and encamps against Jabesh-Gilead, and all the men of Jabesh say unto Nahash, `Make with us a covenant, and we serve you.. ² And Nahash the Ammonite said unto them, `For this I covenant with you, by picking out to you every right eye--and I have put it a reproach on all Israel.. ³ And the elders of Jabesh say to him, `Let us alone seven days, and we send messengers into all the border of Israel:and if there is none saving us--then we have come out unto you.. ⁴ And the messengers come to Gibeah of Saul, and speak the words in the ears of the people, and all the people lift up their voice and weep;" ⁵ and lo, Saul has come after the herd out of the field, and Saul said, `What--to the people, that they weep?' and they recount to him the words of the men of Jabesh. ⁶ And the Spirit of Elohim does prosper over Saul, in his hearing these words, and his anger burns greatly, ⁷ and he takes a couple of oxen, and cuts them in pieces, and sends through all the border of Israel, by the hand of the messengers, saying, `He who is not coming out after Saul and after Samuel--thus it is done to his oxen;' and the fear of Yahweh falls on the people, and they come out as one man. ⁸ And he inspects them in Bezek, and the sons of Israel are three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. ⁹ And they say to the messengers who are coming, `Thus do you say to the men of Jabesh-Gilead:To-morrow you have safety--by the heat of the sun;' and the messengers come and declare to the men of Jabesh, and they rejoice;" ¹⁰ and the men of Jabesh say [to the Ammonites], `To-morrow we come out unto you, and you have done to us according to all that [is] good in your eyes.. ¹¹ And it comes to pass, on the morrow, that Saul puts the people in three detachments, and they come into the midst of the camp in the morning-watch, and smite Ammon till the heat of the day; and it comes to pass that those left are scattered, and there have not been left of them two together. ¹² And the people say unto Samuel, `Who is he that said, Saul does reign over us! give you up the men, and we put them to death.. ¹³ And Saul said, `There is no man put to death on this day, for to-day has Yahweh wrought salvation in Israel.. ¹⁴ And Samuel said unto the people, `Come and we go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there;. ¹⁵ and all the people go to Gilgal, and cause Saul to reign there before Yahweh in Gilgal, and sacrifice there sacrifices of peace-offerings before Yahweh, and there Saul rejoices--and all the men of Israel--very greatly.