1 Samuel 11:3

New English Translation

The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Leave us alone for seven days so that we can send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. If there is no one who can deliver us, we will come out voluntarily to you.”

Cross References

Isaiah 36:16

Don’t listen to Hezekiah!’ For this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Send me a token of your submission and surrender to me. Then each of you may eat from his own vine and fig tree and drink water from his own cistern,

1 Samuel 11:10

The men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you and you can do with us whatever you wish.”

1 Samuel 8:4

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