1Nahash the Ammonite rolled up and set up camp against Jabesh-gilead, and the guys there were like, "Yo, make a deal with us, and we got your back."

2Nahash hit them back, "I’ll make a deal, but only if I can scoop out all your right eyes, so it’s a whole flex on Israel."

3The elders of Jabesh were like, "Can we get seven days to send messengers around Israel? If no one helps us, we’ll come out to you."

4The messengers showed up at Gibeah where Saul was, and they spilled the tea to the people, who all started crying.

5Then Saul came back from the fields and asked, "What’s up with everyone crying?" They told him what was going down with Jabesh.

6When Saul heard the news, the Spirit of God hit him hard, and he got super mad.

7He grabbed a yoke of oxen, chopped them up, and sent pieces all over Israel with messengers, saying, "Whoever doesn’t follow Saul and Samuel, this is what’ll happen to their oxen." The fear of the Lord hit the people, and they all showed up together.

8When they counted everyone in Bezek, there were three hundred thousand Israelites and thirty thousand from Judah.

9They told the messengers to say to Jabesh-gilead, "Tomorrow, when the sun’s blazing, you’ll get help." The messengers went back and told Jabesh, and they were hyped.

10So the guys from Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we’ll come out to you, and you can do whatever you want."

11The next day, Saul split the people into three groups, and they rolled in during the morning watch, taking out the Ammonites until it got hot. By then, everyone left was scattered, not even two were together.

12The people asked Samuel, "Who said Saul shouldn’t rule us? Bring them here so we can handle it."

13Saul was like, "No one’s getting killed today, because the Lord just brought us salvation in Israel."

14Then Samuel told the people, "Let’s head to Gilgal and reboot the kingdom there."

15Everyone went to Gilgal, made Saul king before the Lord, and they threw down peace offerings; Saul and all the Israelites were vibing hard.

1Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh–gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.

2And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.

3And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days’ respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.

4Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.

5And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.

6And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.

7And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.

8And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.

9And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabesh–gilead, To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

10Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.

11And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.

12And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.

13And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to day the Lord hath wrought salvation in Israel.

14Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.

15And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the Lord; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.