4. Then messengers came to Gibeah of Saul and told the news in the ears of the people; and all the people wept aloud.
5. Now Saul came out of the field after the oxen, and [he] said, What ails the people that they are weeping? And they told him the words of the men of Jabesh.
6. The Spirit of God came mightily upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was greatly kindled.
7. And he took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whoever does not come forth after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen! And terror from the Lord fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
8. And he numbered them at Bezek, and the Israelites were 300,000 and the men of Judah 30,000.