1 Samuel 11:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘Don’t do anything to us for seven days,’ the elders of Jabesh said to him, ‘and let us send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. If no one saves us, we will surrender to you.’

Cross References

1 Samuel 8:4

So all the elders of Israel gathered together and went to Samuel at Ramah.

1 Samuel 11:10

Then the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, ‘Tomorrow we will come out, and you can do whatever you want to us.’

Isaiah 36:16

Don’t listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: ‘Make peace  with me and surrender to me. Then every one of you may eat from his own vine and his own fig tree  and drink water from his own cistern