10. Then the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will surrender to you and you can do to us whatever seems good to you.”
11. So it was on the following day that Saul divided the people into three columns; they penetrated into the midst of the camp at the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of day. It came about that the survivors were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
12. Then the people said to Samuel, “Who was it who said, ‘Should Saul reign over us?’ Bring the men, so we may put them to death.”
13. But Saul replied, “No man will be put to death this day, for today Adonai has brought deliverance to Israel.”
14. Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let’s go to Gilgal and reaffirm the kingdom there.”
15. So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before Adonai in Gilgal. There they sacrificed fellowship offerings before Adonai, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.