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.’ ” 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.”
11. And the next day Saul placed the people in three divisions. Then they came into the middle of the camp at the early morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. It happened that the remainder were scattered so that no two among them remained together.
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 Yahweh has provided deliverance in Israel.”
14. Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal, and let us renew the kingship there.”
15. So all the people went to Gilgal and they made Saul king there before Yahweh in Gilgal. They sacrificed fellowship offerings there before Yahweh. Then Saul rejoiced there greatly along with all the men of Israel.