1Sa 11:1, 3, 9, 31:11 | ESV | STEP | Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh - gilead , and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash , Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.

1 Samuel 11:1

Saul Defeats the Ammonites

1 ^aThen Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged ^bJabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, ^c“Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”

1 Samuel 11:3

3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days’ respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.”

1 Samuel 11:9

9 And they said to the messengers who had come, “Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have ^dsalvation.’” When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad.

1 Samuel 31:11

11 ^eBut when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,