If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.
Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Ja´besh–gil´e-ad: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.