Judges 13:24

So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

When the time had come, Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked him of Yahweh.”

Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.

Then one of the young men answered, and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and Yahweh is with him.”

Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor. He was the son of a prostitute. Gilead became the father of Jephthah.

Yahweh visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before Yahweh.

The child Samuel grew on, and increased in favor both with Yahweh and also with men.

Samuel grew, and Yahweh was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.

The servant said to him, “Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honor. All that he says surely happens. Now let’s go there. Perhaps he can tell us which way to go.”

The child was growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.

Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.

Yahweh looked at him, and said, “Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Haven’t I sent you?”

Know now that nothing will fall to the earth of Yahweh’s word, which Yahweh spoke concerning Ahab’s house. For Yahweh has done that which he spoke by his servant Elijah.”

But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.

Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

When John’s messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

After these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh?

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

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

Yahweh’s angel came and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press, to hide it from the Midianites.

He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh and said, “You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die of thirst, and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

Then she arose with her daughters-in-law, that she might return from the country of Moab; for she had heard in the country of Moab how Yahweh had visited his people in giving them bread.

Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child served Yahweh before Eli the priest.

But Samuel ministered before Yahweh, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod.

Yahweh sent Jerubbaal, Bedan, Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side; and you lived in safety.

David grew greater and greater; for Yahweh, the God of Armies, was with him.

All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over. The king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

“Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. There has not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by Moses his servant.

I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.

Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

But he answered him who spoke to him, “Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”

All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him.

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;

The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.

All who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.

There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.

With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.

But that I don’t delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.