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Saul's Victory at Jabesh-Gilead

1 Samuel 11:1-11

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Chapter 11
1 Nahash the Ammonite went 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." 2 And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this condition I will make a treaty with you: I will gouge out every right eye of yours and bring reproach on all Israel." 3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, "Give us seven days' respite, and we will send messengers throughout all the territory of Israel. If there is no savior for us, then we will go out to you." 4 And the messengers came to Saul's hill country and spoke these words in the hearing of the people, and all the people lifted up their voice and wept. 5 Behold, Saul was coming from the field after the cattle, and Saul said, "What is the matter with the people that they weep?" And they told him the words of the men of Jabesh. 6 And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger burned exceedingly. 7 And he took a pair of oxen, cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by messengers, saying, "Whoever does not go out after Saul and Samuel, this is what will be done to his oxen." And the dread of the LORD fell on the people, and they went out as one man. 8 He mustered them at Bezek, and the sons of Israel numbered three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. 9 And they said to the messengers who had come, "Thus you shall say to the men of Jabesh in Gilead: 'Tomorrow, salvation will be yours when the sun grows hot.'" And the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, and they rejoiced. 10 And the men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you may do to us what seems good in your eyes." 11 And it was the next day, and Saul set the people in three companies, and they came into the midst of the camp at the morning watch, and they struck down Ammon until the heat of the day. And there were survivors left, and they scattered, so that no two of them remained together.