6 Then Jehovah’s spirit became operative upon him,+ so that he tore it in two, just as someone tears a male kid in two, and there was nothing at all in his hand. And he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.

6 And the spirit+ of God* became operative upon Saul on his hearing these words, and his anger got very hot.+

13 Accordingly Samuel took the horn of oil+ and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the spirit of Jehovah began to be operative upon David from that day forward.+ Later Samuel rose and went his way to Raʹmah.+

6 Accordingly he answered and said to me: “This is the word of Jehovah to Ze·rubʹba·bel, saying, ‘“Not by a military force,*+ nor by power,*+ but by my spirit,”*+ Jehovah of armies has said.

5 Not that we of ourselves are adequately qualified to reckon anything as issuing from ourselves,+ but our being adequately qualified* issues from God,+