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1 Samuel 11 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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Saul Defeats the Ammonites

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:1 -

Now Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us and we will serve you.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:2 - But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “I will make it with you on this condition, that I will gouge out the right eye of every one of you, and thereby I will inflict a disgrace on all Israel.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:3 - So the elders of Jabesh said to him, “Allow us seven days to send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out to you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:4 - Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and spoke these words in the hearing of the people, and all the people raised their voices and wept.
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Now behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen, and Saul said, “What is the matter with the people that they weep?” So they reported to him the words of the men of Jabesh.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:6 - Then the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and [fn]he became very angry.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:7 - He then took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and after Samuel, the same shall be done to his oxen.” Then the dread of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out as one person.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:8 - He [fn]counted them in Bezek; and the sons of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah, thirty thousand.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:9 - They said to the messengers who had come, “This is what you shall say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be saved.’” So the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh; and they rejoiced.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:10 - Then the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good [fn]to you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:11 - The next morning Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp at the morning watch, and struck and killed the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:12 -

Then the people said to Samuel, “Who is he that said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ [fn]Bring the men, so that we may put them to death!”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:13 - But Saul said, “Not a single person shall be put to death this day, for today the LORD has brought about [fn]victory in Israel.”
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Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, and let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingdom there.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:15 - So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal. There they also offered sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
NASB20 Footnotes
Lit his anger burned exceedingly
Lit mustered
Lit in your sight
Lit Give
Or deliverance in
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