1 Samuel 11:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.”

Cross References

Isaiah 36:16

Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me and come out to me; then every one of you will eat of his own vine, and every one of his own fig tree, and every one of you will drink the water of his own cistern;

1 Samuel 11:10

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

1 Samuel 8:4

Then all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah,