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1 Samuel 11 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
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Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the hearing of the people; and all the people wept aloud.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Now Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen; and Saul said, “What is the matter with the people, that they are weeping?” So they told him the message from the inhabitants of Jabesh. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>And the spirit of God came upon Saul in power when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>He took a yoke of oxen, and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!” Then the dread of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> fell upon the people, and they came out as one. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>When he mustered them at Bezek, those from Israel were three hundred thousand, and those from Judah seventy<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-7454b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> thousand. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>They said to the messengers who had come, “Thus shall you say to the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have deliverance.’” When the messengers came and told the inhabitants of Jabesh, they rejoiced. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>So the inhabitants of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>The next day Saul put the people in three companies. At the morning watch they came into the camp and cut down the Ammonites until the heat of the day; and those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>The people said to Samuel, “Who is it that said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Give them to us so that we may put them to death.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>But Saul said, “No one shall be put to death this day, for today the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has brought deliverance to Israel.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingship.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> in Gilgal. There they sacrificed offerings of well-being before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and there Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Samuel 11:1">1 Samuel 11:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Q Ms Gk: MT lacks <i>About a month later</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 1 Samuel 11:8">1 Samuel 11:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Q Ms Gk: MT <i>thirty</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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