⁶ So they gathered to Mizpah, and drew water and ^(A)poured it out before the Lord, and ^(B)fasted on that day and said there, “^(C)We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the sons of Israel at Mizpah.

¹⁵ And at the end of ten days their appearance seemed ^(A)better, and ^[a]they were fatter than all the youths who had been eating the king’s choice food. ¹⁶ So the overseer continued to ^[b]withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and kept ^(B)giving them vegetables.

² And after He had ^(A)fasted for forty days and forty nights, He ^[a]then became hungry.

²³ When ^(A)they had appointed ^(B)elders for them in every church, having ^(C)prayed with fasting, they ^(D)entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had believed.