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.” 1Sa 12:121Ki 20:34Ezk 17:13Gen 26:28Jdg 21:8Exo 23:32Job 41:41Sa 31:11-13
Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make it with you, that all your right eyes be gouged out. I will make this dishonor all Israel.” 1Sa 17:26Gen 34:14Num 16:142Ki 18:31Exo 3:6Jdg 16:21Jer 39:7Pro 12:10
The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days, that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you.” Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice and wept. 1Sa 10:26Jdg 2:41Sa 15:341Sa 30:4Jdg 21:2Gal 6:21Co 12:261Sa 14:2
Behold, Saul came following the oxen out of the field; and Saul said, “What ails the people that they weep?” They told him the words of the men of Jabesh. 1Ki 19:191Sa 9:1Gen 21:17Isa 22:1Jdg 18:23Psa 78:71 God’s Spirit came mightily on Saul when he heard those words, and his anger burned hot. 1Sa 10:101Sa 16:13Jdg 6:34Jdg 13:25Jdg 14:6Jdg 3:10Jdg 11:29Eph 4:26 He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, then sent them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever doesn’t come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.” The dread of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out as one man. Jdg 19:29Jdg 20:12Ch 14:142Ch 17:10Gen 35:5Jdg 21:5-11 He counted them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. 2Sa 24:9Jdg 1:4-51Sa 13:151Sa 15:42Ch 17:12-19Jdg 20:2 They said to the messengers who came, “Tell the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be rescued.’” The messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad. Psa 18:17 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.” 1Sa 11:2-3 On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together. Jdg 7:16Exo 14:24Gen 22:14Jas 2:131Sa 11:21Sa 30:17-18Jdg 1:7Jdg 4:16
The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!” 1Sa 10:27Luk 19:27Psa 21:8
Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today the LORD has rescued Israel.” 1Sa 19:52Sa 19:22Exo 14:131Sa 14:45Exo 14:30Psa 44:4-8Isa 59:161Co 15:10
Then Samuel said to the people, “Come! Let’s go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.” 1Sa 10:81Sa 7:161Ch 12:38-391Sa 10:24-251Sa 5:3 All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal. There they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. 1Sa 10:81Sa 10:171Ch 29:21-241Sa 12:13-151Sa 12:171Sa 8:19Exo 24:5Hos 13:10-11