make it with you, that all your right eyes be put out;
and I will lay it for a reproach on all Israel.
011:003 The elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days' respite, that we
may send messengers to all the borders of Israel; and then,
if there be none to save us, we will come out to you.
011:004 Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these
words in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted
up their voice, and wept.
011:005 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.
011:006 The Spirit of God came mightily on Saul when he heard those words,
and his anger was kindled greatly.
011:007 He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces, and sent
them throughout all the borders of Israel by the hand
of messengers, saying, Whoever doesn't come forth after
Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen.
The dread of Yahweh fell on the people, and they came out
as one man.
011:008 He numbered them in Bezek; and the children of Israel were
three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
011:009 They said to the messengers who came, Thus shall you tell
the men of Jabesh Gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot,
you shall have deliverance. The messengers came and told
the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
011:010 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.
011:011 It was so on the next day, that Saul put the people in
three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp in the
morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day:
and it happened, that those who remained were scattered,
so that no two of them were left together.
011:012 The people said to Samuel, Who is he who said, Shall Saul reign
over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
011:013 Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day;
for today Yahweh has worked deliverance in Israel.
011:014 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal,
and renew the kingdom there.
011:015 All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king
before Yahweh in Gilgal; and there they offered sacrifices
of peace offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all
the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
012:001 Samuel said to all Israel, Behold, I have listened to your voice
in all that you said to me, and have made a king over you.
012:002 Now, behold, the king walks before you; and I am old
and gray-headed; and behold, my sons are with you:
and I have walked before you from my youth to this day.
012:003 Here I am: witness against me before Yahweh, and before
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