King James Version
1 Samuel 11:10 in the King James Version says “Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unt...” — study this verse from 1 Samuel chapter 11 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.”
1 Samuel 11:10 · KJV
And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabeshgilead , To morrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and shewed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad. help: or, deliverance
Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.
And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Therefore the men”
H582properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified h0120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
“To morrow”
H4279properly, deferred, i.e., the morrow; usually (adverbially) tomorrow; indefinitely, hereafter
“we will come out”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“unto you and ye shall do”
H6213to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“good”
H2896good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good
“with us all that seemeth”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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