1 Samuel 11:4-5

11:4 When the messengers went to Gibeah (where Saul lived) ¹  and informed the people of these matters, all the people wept loudly. ²  11:5 Now Saul was walking behind the ³  oxen as he came from the field. Saul asked, “What has happened to the people? Why are they weeping?” So they told him about ⁴  the men of Jabesh.

[11:4]  ¹ tn Heb “to Gibeah of Saul.”

[11:4]  ² tn Heb “lifted their voice and wept.”

[11:5]  ³ tn Or perhaps, “his oxen.” On this use of the definite article see Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.

[11:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “the matters of.”