1 Samuel 11:4
Good News Translation
The messengers arrived at Gibeah, where Saul lived, and when they told the news, the people started crying in despair.

New Revised Standard Version
When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the hearing of the people; and all the people wept aloud.

Contemporary English Version
Some of the messengers went to Gibeah, Saul's hometown. They told what was happening at Jabesh, and everyone in Gibeah started crying.

New American Bible
When the messengers arrived at Gibeah of Saul and reported the news in the people’s hearing, they all wept aloud.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The messengers therefore came to Gabaa of Saul: and they spoke these words in the hearing of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The messengers therefore came to Gabaa of Saul: and they spoke these words in the hearing of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.

to Gibeah

1 Samuel 10:26 Saul also departed to his own house in Gabaa: and there went with him a part of the army, whose hearts God had touched.

1 Samuel 14:2 And Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gabaa, under the pomegranate tree, which was in Magron: and the people with him were about six hundred men.

1 Samuel 15:34 And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but Saul went up to his house in Gabaa.

2 Samuel 21:6 Let seven men of his children be delivered unto us, that we may crucify them to the Lord in Gabaa of Saul, once the chosen of the Lord. And the king said: I will give them.

lifted up

1 Samuel 30:4 David and the people that were with him, lifted up their voices, and wept till they had no more tears.

Judges 2:4 And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel: they lifted up their voice, and wept.

Judges 21:2 And they all came to the house of God in Silo, and sitting before him till the evening, lifted up their voices, and began to lament and weep, saying:

Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that rejoice: weep with them that weep.

1 Corinthians 12:26 And if one member suffer any thing, all the members suffer with it: or if one member glory, all the members rejoice with it.

Hebrews 13:3 Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.

Context
Saul Defeats the Ammonites
3And the ancients of Jabes said to him: Allow us seven days, that we may send messengers to all the coasts of Israel: and if there be no one to defend us, we will come out to thee. 4The messengers therefore came to Gabaa of Saul: and they spoke these words in the hearing of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.5And behold Saul came, following oxen out of the field, and he said: What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the words of the men of Jabes.…
Cross References
Genesis 27:38
And Esau said to him: Hast thou only one blessing, father? I beseech thee bless me also. And when he wept with a loud cry,

Judges 2:4
And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel: they lifted up their voice, and wept.

Judges 20:23
Yet so that they first went up and wept before the Lord until night: and consulted him and said: Shall I go out any more to fight against the children of Benjamin my brethren or not? And he answered them: Go up against them, and join battle.

Judges 20:26
Wherefore all the children of Israel came to the house of God, and sat and wept before the Lord: and they fasted that day till the evening, and offered to him holocausts, and victims of peace offerings,

Judges 21:2
And they all came to the house of God in Silo, and sitting before him till the evening, lifted up their voices, and began to lament and weep, saying:

1 Samuel 10:26
Saul also departed to his own house in Gabaa: and there went with him a part of the army, whose hearts God had touched.

1 Samuel 15:34
And Samuel departed to Ramatha: but Saul went up to his house in Gabaa.

1 Samuel 30:4
David and the people that were with him, lifted up their voices, and wept till they had no more tears.

1 Samuel 11:3
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