Then the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.”
And the king of Israel replied, “As you say, my lord, O king; I am yours, as well as all that I have.”
They said to the messengers who had come, “This is what you shall say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be saved.’ ” So the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh; and they rejoiced.