📖WEB · 1 Samuel 11:13
What does 1 Samuel 11:13 mean?
"Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”"
— 1 Samuel 11:13 (World English Bible)
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Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you shall do with us all that seems good to you.”
On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
The people said to Samuel, “Who is he who said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring those men, that we may put them to death!”
Saul said, “No man shall be put to death today; for today Yahweh has rescued Israel.”
Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.”
All the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before Yahweh in Gilgal. There they offered sacrifices of peace offerings before Yahweh; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
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