1 Samuel 11:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They said to the messengers who had come, “Thus shall you say to the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead: Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have deliverance.” When the messengers came and told the inhabitants of Jabesh, they rejoiced.

Cross References

2 Samuel 2:5

David sent messengers to the people of Jabesh-gilead and said to them, “May you be blessed by the Lord, because you showed this loyalty to Saul your lord and buried him!

1 Chronicles 10:12

all the valiant warriors got up and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. Then they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

Psalm 18:17

He delivered me from my strong enemy and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

Judges 21:8

Then they said, “Is there anyone from the tribes of Israel who did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah?” It turned out that no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp, to the assembly.

1 Samuel 11:10

So the inhabitants of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.”

1 Samuel 11:8

When he mustered them at Bezek, those from Israel were three hundred thousand and those from Judah seventy thousand.

1 Samuel 31:11

But when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,