"And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling...

“As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled” (Ezra 9:3). The exiles...

“Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, and the word of the LORD had not yet been revealed to him” (1 Samuel 3:7). Samuel’s story is a...