1Sa 11:4-10 | ESV | STEP | When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul , they reported the matter in the ears of the people , and all the people wept aloud .

1 Samuel 11:4-10

4 When the messengers came to ^aGibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, ^band all the people wept aloud.

5 Now, behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen. And Saul said, “What is wrong with the people, that they are weeping?” So they told him the news of the men of Jabesh. 6 ^cAnd the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled. 7 He took a yoke of oxen ^dand cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, ^e“Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!” Then the dread of the Lord fell upon the people, and they came out ^fas one man. 8 When he mustered them at ^gBezek, ^hthe people of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. 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 ⁱsalvation.’” When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad. 10 Therefore the men of Jabesh said, ^j“Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.”