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1 Samuel 11:1-12

11:1

Then Nahash
<05176>

the Ammonite
<05984>

came up
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and encamped
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against Jabeshgilead
<03003> <01568>_:

and all the men
<0582>

of Jabesh
<03003>

said
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unto Nahash
<05176>_,

Make
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a covenant
<01285>

with us, and we will serve
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thee.

11:2

And Nahash
<05176>

the Ammonite
<05984>

answered
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them, On this
<02063>

[condition] will I make
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[a covenant] with you, that I may thrust out
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all your right
<03225>

eyes
<05869>_,

and lay
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it [for] a reproach
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upon all Israel
<03478>_.

11:3

And the elders
<02205>

of Jabesh
<03003>

said
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unto him, Give us seven
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days
<03117>_'

respite
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that we may send
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messengers
<04397>

unto all the coasts
<01366>

of Israel
<03478>_:

and then, if [there be] no man to save
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us, we will come out
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to thee. {Give...: Heb. Forbear us}

11:4

Then came
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the messengers
<04397>

to Gibeah
<01390>

of Saul
<07586>_,

and told
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the tidings
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in the ears
<0241>

of the people
<05971>_:

and all the people
<05971>

lifted up
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their voices
<06963>_,

and wept
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11:5

And, behold, Saul
<07586>

came
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after
<0310>

the herd
<01241>

out of the field
<07704>_;

and Saul
<07586>

said
<0559> (8799)_,

What [aileth] the people
<05971>

that they weep
<01058> (8799)_?

And they told
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him the tidings
<01697>

of the men
<0582>

of Jabesh
<03003>_.

11:6

And the Spirit
<07307>

of God
<0430>

came
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upon Saul
<07586>

when he heard
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those tidings
<01697>_,

and his anger
<0639>

was kindled
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greatly
<03966>_.

11:7

And he took
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a yoke
<06776>

of oxen
<01241>_,

and hewed them in pieces
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and sent
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[them] throughout all the coasts
<01366>

of Israel
<03478>

by the hands
<03027>

of messengers
<04397>_,

saying
<0559> (8800)_,

Whosoever cometh not forth
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after
<0310>

Saul
<07586>

and after
<0310>

Samuel
<08050>_,

so shall it be done
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unto his oxen
<01241>_.

And the fear
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of the LORD
<03068>

fell
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on the people
<05971>_,

and they came out
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with one
<0259>

consent
<0376>_.

{with...: Heb. as one man}

11:8

And when he numbered
<06485> (8799)

them in Bezek
<0966>_,

the children
<01121>

of Israel
<03478>

were three
<07969>

hundred
<03967>

thousand
<0505>_,

and the men
<0376>

of Judah
<03063>

thirty
<07970>

thousand
<0505>_.

11:9

And they said
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unto the messengers
<04397>

that came
<0935> (8802)_,

Thus shall ye say
<0559> (8799)

unto the men
<0376>

of Jabeshgilead
<03003> <01568>_,

To morrow
<04279>_,

by [that time] the sun
<08121>

be hot
<02527>_,

ye shall have help
<08668>_.

And the messengers
<04397>

came
<0935> (8799)

and shewed
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[it] to the men
<0582>

of Jabesh
<03003>_;

and they were glad
<08055> (8799)_.

{help: or, deliverance}

11:10

Therefore the men
<0582>

of Jabesh
<03003>

said
<0559> (8799)_,

To morrow
<04279>

we will come out
<03318> (8799)

unto you, and ye shall do
<06213> (8804)

with us all that seemeth
<05869>

good
<02896>

unto you.

11:11

And it was [so] on the morrow
<04283>_,

that Saul
<07586>

put
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the people
<05971>

in three
<07969>

companies
<07218>_;

and they came
<0935> (8799)

into the midst
<08432>

of the host
<04264>

in the morning
<01242>

watch
<0821>_,

and slew
<05221> (8686)

the Ammonites
<05983>

until the heat
<02527>

of the day
<03117>_:

and it came to pass, that they which remained
<07604> (8737)

were scattered
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so that two
<08147>

of them were not left
<07604> (8738)

together
<03162>_.

11:12

And the people
<05971>

said
<0559> (8799)

unto Samuel
<08050>_,

Who [is] he that said
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Shall Saul
<07586>

reign
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over us? bring
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the men
<0582>_,

that we may put them to death
<04191> (8686)_.