The mother of the child said, &#8220;As certainly as the <sc>Lordsc> lives and as you live, I will not leave you.&#8221; So Elisha<n id="1" /> got up and followed her back.p>

When Elisha arrived at the house, there was<n id="1" /> the child lying dead on his bed.

<p class="poetry">The people will treat each other harshly;p> <p class="poetry">men will oppose each other;p> <p class="poetry">neighbors will fight.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Youths will proudly defy the elderlyp> <p class="poetry">and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">But God heard the boy&#8217;s voice.<n id="1" /> The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and asked her, &#8220;What is the matter,<n id="2" /> Hagar? Don&#8217;t be afraid, for God has heard<n id="3" /> the boy&#8217;s voice right where he is crying.

<p class="bodytext">Now Gehazi went on ahead of them. He placed the staff on the child&#8217;s face, but there was no sound or response. When he came back to Elisha<n id="1" /> he told him, &#8220;The child did not wake up.&#8221;

Elisha<n id="1" /> went back and walked around in the house.<n id="2" /> Then he got up on the bed again<n id="3" /> and bent down over him. The child sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

Then Abraham ran to the herd and chose a fine, tender calf, and gave it to a servant,<n id="1" /> who quickly prepared it.<n id="2" />

Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water.<n id="1" /> She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.p>

You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive,<n id="1" /> and I&#8217;ll give<n id="2" /> whatever you ask<n id="3" /> of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!&#8221;p>

The young man did not delay in doing what they asked<n id="1" /> because he wanted Jacob&#8217;s daughter Dinah<n id="2" /> badly. (Now he was more important<n id="3" /> than anyone in his father&#8217;s household.)<n id="4" />

We said to my lord, &#8216;The boy cannot leave his father. If he leaves his father, his father<n id="1" /> will die.&#8217;<n id="2" />

When he sees the boy is not with us,<n id="1" /> he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to the grave.

Indeed,<n id="1" /> your servant pledged security for the boy with my father, saying, &#8216;If I do not bring him back to you, then I will bear the blame before my father all my life.&#8217;p>

But if the man came across<n id="1" /> the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped<n id="2" /> her, then only the rapist<n id="3" /> must die.

He ordered Jether his firstborn son, &#8220;Come on!<n id="1" /> Kill them!&#8221; But Jether was too afraid to draw his sword,<n id="2" /> because he was still young.

Samson said to the young man who held his hand, &#8220;Position me so I can touch the pillars that support the temple.<n id="1" /> Then I can lean on them.&#8221;

The servant in charge of the harvesters replied, &#8220;She&#8217;s the young Moabite woman who came back with Naomi from the region of Moab.

but Hannah did not go up with them.<n id="1" /> Instead she told her husband, &#8220;Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the <sc>Lordsc>, and he will remain there from then on.&#8221;p>

So the <sc>Lordsc> graciously attended to Hannah, and she was able to conceive and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up at the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sanctuary.<n id="1" />p>

Saul said to him, &#8220;Whose son are you, young man?&#8221; David replied, &#8220;I am the son of your servant Jesse in Bethlehem.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>