KJV King James Version
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.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
1 Samuel 11:4
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.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and relayed these words in the hearing of the people, they all wept aloud.
WEB World English Bible
Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And the messengers come to Gibeah of Saul, and speak the words in the ears of the people, and all the people lift up their voice and weep;
Surrounding context — 1 Samuel 11
1 Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabeshgilead: and all the men of Jabesh said unto Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.
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.
4 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.
7 And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent [them] throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
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וַיָּבֹ֤אוּH935 · boto come (in): comeהַמַּלְאָכִים֙H4397 · ma.le.akhmessengerגִּבְעַ֣תH1390 · giv.ahGibeahשָׁא֔וּלH7586 · sha.ulSaulוַיְדַבְּר֥וּH1696 · da.varto speak: speakהַדְּבָרִ֖יםH1697 · da.varwordבְּאָזְנֵ֣יH241 · o.zenearהָעָ֑םH5971 · ampeopleוַיִּשְׂא֧וּH5375 · na.sato lift: raiseכָל־H3605 · kolallהָעָ֛םH5971 · ampeopleאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]קוֹלָ֖םH6963 · qolvoiceוַיִּבְכּֽוּ׃H1058 · ba.khahto weep
Cross-references
1 Samuel 10:26And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.Judges 2:4And 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.1 Samuel 15:34Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.1 Samuel 30:4Then David and the people that [were] with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.Judges 21:2And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;Galatians 6:2Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.Hebrews 13:3Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.1 Samuel 14:2And 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;2 Samuel 21:6Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, [whom] the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give [them].1 Corinthians 12:26And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.Romans 12:15Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
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