Then ¹  Jesus rebuked ²  the demon and it came out of him, and the boy was healed from that moment.

“So now, please let your servant remain as my lord’s slave instead of the boy. As for the boy, let him go back with his brothers.

returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?”

God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord. The boy was dressed in a linen ephod.

It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy ¹  looked so much like a corpse that many said, “He is dead!”

(Now the servant did not understand any of this. Only Jonathan and David knew what was going on.) ¹ 

They took the boy home alive and were greatly ¹  comforted.

“So now, when I return to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us – his very life is bound up in his son’s life. ¹ 

So they brought the boy ¹  to him. When the spirit saw him, it immediately threw the boy into a convulsion. He ²  fell on the ground and rolled around, foaming at the mouth.

Now the boy Samuel was growing up and finding favor both with the Lord and with people.

Jonathan called out to the servant, “Hurry! Go faster! Don’t delay!” Jonathan’s servant retrieved the arrow and came back to his master.

and they cast lots for my people. They traded ¹  a boy for a prostitute; they sold a little girl for wine so they could drink. ² 

But ¹  when the feast was over, ²  as they were returning home, ³  the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His ⁴  parents ⁵  did not know it,

“Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good ¹  are these for so many people?”

He said to his servant, “Run, find the arrows that I am about to shoot.” As the servant ran, Jonathan ¹  shot the arrow beyond him.

As ¹  the boy ²  was approaching, the demon threw him to the ground ³  and shook him with convulsions. ⁴  But Jesus rebuked ⁵  the unclean ⁶  spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the Lord under the supervision of ¹  Eli the priest.

Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

Jesus ¹  asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood.