1About a month later Nahash the Ammonite attacked and besieged Jabesh-gilead. The men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Grant us terms and we will be your subjects.”
2Nahash answered, “On one condition only shall I grant you terms: that I gouge out the right eye of every one of you and bring disgrace on all Israel.”
3The elders of Jabesh-gilead said, “Give us seven days' respite to send messengers throughout Israel and then, if no one relieves us, we shall surrender to you.”
4The messengers came to Gibeah, where Saul lived, and delivered their message, and all the people broke into lamentation and weeping.
5Saul was just coming from the field, driving in the oxen, and asked why the people were lamenting; and they told him what the men of Jabesh had said.
6When Saul heard this, the spirit of God suddenly seized him; in anger
7he took a pair of oxen, cut them in pieces, and sent messengers with the pieces all through Israel to proclaim that the same would be done to the oxen of any man who did not follow Saul and Samuel to battle. The fear of the LORD fell upon the people and they came out to a man.
8Saul mustered them in Bezek, three hundred thousand men from Israel and thirty thousand from Judah.
9He said to the messengers, “Tell the men of Jabesh-gilead, ‘Victory will be yours tomorrow by the time the sun is hot.’” When they received this message, the men of Jabesh took heart;
10but they said to Nahash, “Tomorrow we shall surrender to you, and then you may deal with us as you think fit.”
11Next day Saul with his men in three columns forced a way right into the enemy camp during the morning watch and massacred the Ammonites until the day grew hot; those who survived were scattered until no two of them were left together.
12The people said to Samuel, “Who said that Saul should not reign over us? Hand the men over to us to be put to death.”
13But Saul said, “No man is to be put to death on a day when the LORD has won such a victory in Israel.”
14Samuel said to the people, “Let us now go to Gilgal and there establish the kingship anew.”
15So they all went to Gilgal and invested Saul there as king in the presence of the LORD. They sacrificed shared-offerings before the LORD, and Saul and all the Israelites celebrated with great joy.
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