respite that we # 09_1SA_11_03  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. ## 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.