In 1 Samuel 11, after Saul is anointed as king, he returns home and continues his previous work farming. Since Saul was the first king of Israel, there was no royal court or bureaucracy system yet set up.

Then word came that the Ammonite king, Nahash, had besieged the Israel town of Jabesh. Nahash wanted to disgrace all of Israel, so a treaty was only possible if everyone had their right eye gouged out.

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