⁵ When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant^[a] who was with him, “Come, let us go back, ^(A)lest my father cease to care about the donkeys and become anxious about us.”

² When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by ^(A)Rachel's tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, ^(B)‘The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now ^(C)your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”’

The Birth of Samuel

1 There was a certain man of ^(A)Ramathaim-zophim of ^(B)the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, ^(C)an Ephrathite.

Do Not Be Anxious

²² And he said to his disciples, ^(A)“Therefore I tell you, ^(B)do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on.

^11 (A)And when they ^(B)bring you before the synagogues and ^(C)the rulers and ^(D)the authorities, ^(E)do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say,