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1 Samuel 11:6-11

1 Samuel 11:6-11 MEV

The Spirit of God came strongly upon Saul when he heard these words, and he became very angry. He took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces. And he sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and after Samuel, so will it be done to his oxen.” And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out as one man. When he numbered them in Bezek, the Israelites were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. They said to the messengers that came, “Thus will you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will have help.’ ” And the messengers came and reported it to the men of Jabesh and they were glad. Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you may do to us all that seems good to you.” On the next day Saul put the people in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those surviving were scattered, so that even two of them were not left together.