⁴⁸ When he saw that they were straining at the oars against an adverse wind, he came toward them early in the morning, walking on the sea. He intended to pass them by.^(A)

²⁸ As they came near the village to which they were going, he walked ahead as if he were going on.^(A)

³⁸ If he comes during the middle of the night or near dawn and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.

¹³ who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.^(A)

²⁴ but by this time the boat, battered by the waves, was far from the land,^[a] for the wind was against them.

¹¹ The next day Saul put the people in three companies. At the morning watch they came into the camp and cut down the Ammonites until the heat of the day, and those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.^(A)