1 Samuel 11:9-12

9They said to the messengers who had come, “This is what you shall say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you will be saved.’” So the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh; and they rejoiced. 10Then the men of Jabesh said, “1Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good 2to you.” 11The next morning Saul put the people 3in three companies; and they came into the midst of the camp at the morning watch, and struck and killed the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived scattered, so that no two of them were left together.

12Then the people said to Samuel, “4Who is he that said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ 56Bring the men, so that we may put them to death!”