1 Samuel 11:7-9

Living Bible

⁷ He took two oxen and cut them into pieces and sent messengers to carry them throughout all Israel.

“This is what will happen to the oxen of anyone who refuses to follow Saul and Samuel to battle!” he announced. And God caused the people to be afraid of Saul’s anger, and they came to him as one man. ⁸ He counted them in Bezek and found that there were three hundred thousand of them in addition to thirty thousand from Judah.

⁹ So he sent the messengers back to Jabesh-gilead to say, “We will rescue you before tomorrow noon!” What joy there was throughout the city when that message arrived!