1 Chronicles 10:11 Cross References - VIN

¹¹ When all the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard of everything the Philistines had done to Saul,

¹ Now Nahash the Ammonite went up and encamped against Jabesh Gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a treaty with us and we will serve you." ² Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "I'll make a covenant with you on the condition that I gouge out the right eye of every one of you and so bring disgrace on all Israel." ³ The elders of Jabesh said: "Give us seven days to send messengers throughout the land of Israel. If no one will help us, then we will surrender to you." ⁴ Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and reported these words to the people, and they all wept aloud. ⁵ Just then Saul was coming in from the field behind the oxen and he said, "What's with the people? Why are they crying?" They reported to him what the men of Jabesh had said. ⁶ When Saul heard these words, the Spirit of God came on him, and he was very angry. ⁷ He took a yoke of oxen, cut them in pieces, and sent the pieces by messengers through all the territory of Israel: "This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not come out and join Saul and Samuel!" The fear of the LORD fell on the people and they came out as one man. ⁸ And when he numbered them in Bezek, the sons of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand. ⁹ They told the messengers who had come, "You shall say this to the men of Jabesh-gilead, 'Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be delivered.'" The messengers went and reported to the men of Jabesh, and they rejoiced. ¹⁰ The men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will come out to you and you may do to us whatever seems good to you." ¹¹ The next day Saul put the people into three companies, and they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and slaughtered the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

¹¹ When the residents of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, ¹² all the valiant men arose and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burned them there. ¹³ And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh. And they fasted seven days.

⁴ And the men of Judah came, and there anointed David king over the house of Judah. When it was told David, how the men of Jabesh in Gilead had buried Saul, ⁵ He sent some men there with the message: "the LORD blesses you for showing your loyalty to your king by burying him. ⁶ `And, now, the LORD does with you kindness and truth, and also, I do with you this good because you have done this thing;" ⁷ So then, let your hands be strong and be valiant, for your lord Saul is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me as king over them."