Deliverance promised by midday

9They said to the messengers who were coming, “Thus you shall say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: Tomorrow, by the heat of the sun, you will have deliverance.” So the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, and they rejoiced.

10So the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good in your eyes.”