1 Samuel 11:3

A Conservative Version

And the elders of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days' respite that we may send messengers to all the borders of Israel, and then, if there be none to save us, we will come out to thee.

Cross References

1 Samuel 8:4

Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel to Ramah.

1 Samuel 11:10

Therefore the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, and ye shall do with us all that seems good to you.

Isaiah 36:16

Hearken not to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me, and eat ye everyone of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and drink ye everyone the waters of his own cistern,