The king said, “Find out whose son this boy is!”

He got up on the bed and spread his body out over ¹  the boy; he put his mouth on the boy’s ²  mouth, his eyes over the boy’s eyes, and the palms of his hands against the boy’s palms. He bent down over him, and the boy’s skin ³  grew warm.

“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.

He stretched out over the boy three times and called out to the Lord, “O Lord, my God, please let this boy’s breath return to him.”

Once the bull had been slaughtered, they brought the boy to Eli.

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

Before she goes into labor, she gives birth! Before her contractions begin, she delivers a boy!

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

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

We said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father ¹  will die.’ ² 

Now therefore kill every boy, ¹  and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man. ² 

I prayed for this boy, and the Lord has given me the request that I asked of him.

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

When the Philistine looked carefully at David, he despised him, for he was only a ruddy and handsome boy.

“As for you, get up and go home. When you set foot in the city, the boy will die.

The Lord answered Elijah’s prayer; the boy’s breath returned to him and he lived.

The boy grew and one day he went out to see his father who was with the harvest workers. ¹ 

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

Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. ¹  She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see ¹  my father’s pain.” ²