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1 Samuel 11:4

SaulGibeah
Grief

2 And 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.

3 And 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.

Then 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.

5 And, 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.

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

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BSB
When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.
KJV
Then 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.
WEB
Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice and wept.
ASV
Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and spake these words in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
DARBY
And the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and told these words in the ears of the people. And all the people lifted up their voice and wept.
BLB
And the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and told the news in the ears of the people. And all the people lifted up their voices and wept.
ÅB
Da sendebudene kom til Sauls Gibea og bar fram sitt ærend for folket, brast alt folket i gråt.
OTB
Da budbringerne kom til Sauls Gibea og fortalte betingelsene i folkets ører, gråt hele folket høyt.
B1930
Da sendebudene kom til Sauls Gibea og bar frem sitt ærend for folket, brast alt folket i gråt.

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Cross references

  • 1 Samuel 10:26

    And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.

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  • Judges 2:4

    And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

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  • Judges 21:2

    And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;

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  • 1 Samuel 30:4

    Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

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  • 1 Samuel 15:34

    Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

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  • Galatians 6:2

    Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

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  • 1 Samuel 14:2

    And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;

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  • Hebrews 13:3

    Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

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