"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...

"'I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD, that you may remember and be confounded, and never open...

“And the Lord said: ‘[…] this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and...

“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...