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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Samuel 11 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_samuel/11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_samuel/11-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > 1 Samuel 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_samuel/10.htm" title="1 Samuel 10">◄</a> 1 Samuel 11 <a href="../1_samuel/12.htm" title="1 Samuel 12">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_samuel/11-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/11-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Nahash the Ammonite comes up, and encamps against Jabesh-Gilead, and all the men of Jabesh say to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us, and we serve you.” <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/11-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Nahash the Ammonite says to them, “For this I cut [a covenant] with you, in picking out every right eye of yours—and I have set it [for] a reproach on all Israel.” <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/11-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And [the] elderly of Jabesh say to him, “Leave us alone [for] seven days, and we send messengers into all the border of Israel: and if there is none saving us—then we have come out to you.” <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/11-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And the messengers come to Gibeah of Saul, and speak the words in the ears of the people, and all the people lift up their voice and weep;<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/11-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and behold, Saul has come out of the field after the herd, and Saul says, “What [is that] to the people, that they weep?” And they recount the words of the men of Jabesh to him. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/11-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the Spirit of God prospers over Saul, in his hearing these words, and his anger burns greatly, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/11-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and he takes a couple of oxen, and cuts them in pieces, and sends [them] through all the border of Israel, by the hand of the messengers, saying, “He who is not coming out after Saul and after Samuel—thus it is done to his oxen”; and the fear of YHWH falls on the people, and they come out as one man. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/11-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And he inspects them in Bezek, and the sons of Israel are three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/11-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And they say to the messengers who are coming, “Thus you say to the men of Jabesh-Gilead: Tomorrow you have safety—by the heat of the sun”; and the messengers come and declare [it] to the men of Jabesh, and they rejoice; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/11-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>and the men of Jabesh say [to the Ammonites], “Tomorrow we come out to you, and you have done to us according to all that [is] good in your eyes.” <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/11-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And it comes to pass, on the next day, that Saul puts the people in three detachments, and they come into the midst of the camp in the morning-watch, and strike Ammon until the heat of the day; and it comes to pass that those left are scattered, and there have not been left two of them together.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/11-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the people say to Samuel, “Who is he that says, Saul reigns over us? Give up the men, and we put them to death.” <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/11-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Saul says, “There is no man put to death on this day, for today YHWH has worked salvation in Israel.”<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/11-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Samuel says to the people, “Come and we go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there”; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_samuel/11-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and all the people go to Gilgal, and cause Saul to reign there before YHWH in Gilgal, and sacrifice sacrifices of peace-offerings there before YHWH, and Saul rejoices there—and all the men of Israel—very greatly.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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