6 Then the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and ⌊he became very angry⌋.e 7 So he took a yoke of oxen and cut them into pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, “Whoever is not going out after Saul and after Samuel, so will it be done to his oxen.” Then the fear of Yahweh fell on the people and they went out as one man. 8 He mustered them at Bezek; the ⌊Israelites⌋f were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah were thirty thousand. 9 They said to the messengers who had come, “Thus you will say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: ‘Tomorrow deliverance for you will come ⌊when the sun is hot⌋.’ ”g When the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh, they rejoiced. 10 The men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you and you may do to us ⌊whatever seems good to you⌋.”h 11 ⌊And the⌋i next day Saul placed the people in three divisions. Then they came into the middle of the camp ⌊at the early morning watch⌋j and struck down ⌊the Ammonites⌋k until the heat of the day. It happened that the remainder were scattered ⌊so that no two among them remained together⌋.l 12 Then the people said to Samuel, “Who is the one who asked, ‘Will Saul reign over us?’ Give the men to us that we may kill them.” 13 But Saul said, “No one will be put to death on this day, because ⌊today⌋m Yahweh has provided deliverance in Israel.”