1 Samuel 11:3-5

International Standard Version

³ The elders of Jabesh told him, “Leave us alone for seven days so that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then if no one delivers us, we will come out to you and surrender.”^{[a] 4} When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and reported the terms to the people,^[b] all the people cried loudly.^[c]

⁵ Just then Saul was coming in from the field behind the oxen and he said, “What’s with the people? Why are they crying?” They reported to him what the men of Jabesh had said.^[d]