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1 Samuel 11:3-5
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3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Leave us alone for seven days so that we can send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. If there is no one who can deliver us, we will come out voluntarily to you.”

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

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 11:4 tn Heb “to Gibeah of Saul.”
  2. 1 Samuel 11:4 tn Heb “lifted their voice and wept.”
  3. 1 Samuel 11:5 tn Or perhaps, “his oxen.” On this use of the definite article see Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.
  4. 1 Samuel 11:5 tn Heb “the matters of.”
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