Then the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good in your eyes.”
Then the king of Israel answered and said, “It is according to your word, my lord, O king; I am yours, and all that I have.”
And they said to the messengers who had come, “Thus you shall say to the men of Jabesh-gilead, ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will have salvation.’ ” So the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.