1亞捫人拿轄率軍上來圍困基列·雅比，城內的居民對拿轄說：「你與我們立約吧！我們願意服從你。」2亞捫人拿轄說：「好，但有一個條件，我要挖去你們每一個人的右眼作為對全體以色列人的羞辱。」3雅比的長老說：「請寬限我們七天，我們好派遣使者去以色列全境。要是沒有人來營救我們，我們就向你投降。」4雅比的使者來到掃羅的家鄉基比亞，把他們的情況告訴眾人，大家聽了放聲大哭。5那時掃羅剛好趕著牛從田間回來，便問道：「發生了什麼事？為什麼大家都在哭？」百姓把雅比的情況告訴了他。6掃羅聽後，上帝的靈降在他身上，他勃然大怒，7牽來兩頭牛，把牠們切成碎塊，然後派使者把碎塊分發到以色列全境，並且宣佈：「誰拒絕跟隨掃羅和撒母耳出戰，他的牛就要被砍成這樣。」上帝使百姓充滿恐懼，他們都同心合意地回應。8掃羅在比色統計以色列人，共有三十萬，從猶大來的有三萬。9他們讓雅比的使者回去告訴基列·雅比人，說：「明天中午，你們必得拯救。」使者回去告訴雅比人，他們非常歡喜，10便對亞捫人說：「明天我們會出來歸順你們，你們怎樣對待我們都可以。」11第二天，掃羅把以色列人分成三隊，在黎明時分突襲亞捫人的軍營，把他們殺得大敗，直到中午才收兵。亞捫人的殘兵四散奔逃。12以色列人對撒母耳說：「是誰說掃羅不該做王？把他們帶來，我們要處死他們。」13掃羅卻說：「今天不可殺人，因為今天耶和華拯救了以色列。」14撒母耳對民眾說：「來吧，我們到吉甲去，在那裡重新立國。」15於是，他們來到吉甲，在耶和華面前立掃羅為王，又向耶和華獻上平安祭。掃羅和全體以色列人都非常歡喜。
English Standard Version
Saul Defeats the Ammonites
1Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”2But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus bring disgrace on all Israel.”3The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days’ respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.”4When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, and all the people wept aloud.5Now, behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen. And Saul said, “What is wrong with the people, that they are weeping?” So they told him the news of the men of Jabesh.6And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.7He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!” Then the dread of the Lord fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.8When he mustered them at Bezek, the people of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.9And they said to the messengers who had come, “Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have salvation.’” When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad.10Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.”11And the next day Saul put the people in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
The Kingdom Is Renewed
12Then the people said to Samuel, “Who is it that said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring the men, that we may put them to death.”13But Saul said, “Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the Lord has worked salvation in Israel.”14Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there renew the kingdom.”15So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the Lord, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.
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