1 Samuel 11:3

Easy To Read Version

The leaders of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Let us have seven days. We will send messengers through all Israel. If no one comes to help us, we will come up to you {and surrender to you}.”

Cross References

Isaiah 36:16

Don’t listen to those words from Hezekiah. Listen to the king of Assyria. The king of Assyria says, “We should make an agreement. You people should come out of the city to me. Then every person will be free to go home. Every person will be free to eat grapes from his own vine. And every person will be free to eat the figs from his own fig tree. Every person will be free to drink water from his own well.

1 Samuel 11:10

Then the people of Jabesh said to Nahash the Ammonite, “Tomorrow we will come to you. Then you can do anything you want to us.”

1 Samuel 8:4

So all the elders (leaders) of Israel met together. They went to Ramah to meet with Samuel.