Then Nahash the Ammonite came up, and encamped against Jabesh Gilead: and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, Make a covenant with us, and we will serve you.
Payne wrote that, "The narrator here suddenly switches to a new topic,"[2] but to this writer it seems mandatory to see only one subject throughout  1 Samuel 8-11, namely, the elevation of Saul to the throne of Israel.  Every word of these four chapters is focused on that one event.