1 Samuel 11:5-7

Contemporary English Version

⁵ Just then, Saul came in from the fields, walking behind his oxen.

“Why is everyone crying?” Saul asked.

They told him what the men from Jabesh had said. ⁶ Then the Spirit of God suddenly took control of Saul and made him furious. ⁷ Saul killed two of his oxen, cut them up in pieces, and gave the pieces to the^[a] messengers. He told them to show the pieces to everyone in Israel and say, “Saul and Samuel are getting an army together. Come and join them. If you don't, this is what will happen to your oxen!”

The Lord made the people of Israel terribly afraid. So all the men came together