New American Standard Bible (NASB)
1 Samuel 10
26 Saul also went to his house at Gibeah; and the valiant men whose hearts God had touched went with him.
27 But certain worthless men said, "How can this one deliver us?" And they despised him and did not bring him any present. But he kept silent.
1 Samuel 11
1 Now Nahash the Ammonite came up and besieged Jabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a covenant with us and we will serve you."
2 But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "I will make it with you on this condition, that I will gouge out the right eye of every one of you, thus I will make it a reproach on all Israel."
3 The elders of Jabesh said to him, "Let us alone for seven days, that we may send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to deliver us, we will come out to you."
4 Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and spoke these words in the hearing of the people, and all the people lifted up their voices and wept.
5 Now behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen, and he said, "What is the matter with the people that they weep?" So they related to him the words of the men of Jabesh.
6 Then the Spirit of God came upon Saul mightily when he heard these words, and he became very angry.
7 He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces, and sent them throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, "Whoever does not come out after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen." Then the dread of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out as one man.
8 He numbered them in Bezek; and the sons of Israel were 300,000, and the men of Judah 30,000.
9 They said to the messengers who had come, "Thus you shall say to the men of Jabesh-gilead, ’Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will have deliverance.’" So the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
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