1 Samuel 11:4
“Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.”
And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.
And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days’ respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.
And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.
And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.
Cross-References
“They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.”
“And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.”
“And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;”
“Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.”
“Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.”