1 Samuel 11:5-8 ▼

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 Saul mustered them at Bezek, and there were 300,000 Israelis and 30,000 men of Judah.