Saul counted them at Bezek.(A) There were 300,000[a](B) Israelites and 30,000[b] men from Judah. He told the messengers who had come, “Tell this to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Deliverance will be yours tomorrow by the time the sun is hot.’” So the messengers told the men of Jabesh, and they rejoiced.

10 Then the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Tomorrow we will come out, and you can do whatever you want[c] to us.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 11:8 LXX reads 600,000
  2. 1 Samuel 11:8 DSS, LXX read 70,000
  3. 1 Samuel 11:10 Lit do what is good in your eyes

When Saul mustered(A) them at Bezek,(B) the men of Israel numbered three hundred thousand and those of Judah thirty thousand.

They told the messengers who had come, “Say to the men of Jabesh Gilead, ‘By the time the sun is hot tomorrow, you will be rescued.’” When the messengers went and reported this to the men of Jabesh, they were elated. 10 They said to the Ammonites, “Tomorrow we will surrender(C) to you, and you can do to us whatever you like.”

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