1 Samuel 11:7-9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁷ He took a team of oxen, cut them into pieces,^(A) and sent them throughout the territory of Israel by messengers who said, ‘This is what will be done to the ox of anyone who doesn’t march behind Saul and Samuel.’^(B) As a result, the terror of the Lord fell on the people, and they went out united.^(C)

⁸ Saul counted them at Bezek.^(D) There were three hundred thousand^[a](E) Israelites and thirty thousand^[b] men from Judah. ⁹ He told the messengers who had come, ‘Tell this to the men of Jabesh-gilead: “Deliverance will be yours tomorrow by the time the sun is hot.” ’ So the messengers told the men of Jabesh, and they rejoiced.