18 And one of the attendants proceeded to answer and say: “Look! I have seen how a son of Jesʹse the Bethʹle·hem·ite is skilled at playing,+ and he is a valiant, mighty man+ and a man of war+ and an intelligent speaker+ and a well-formed man,+ and Jehovah is with him.”+

23 And the counsel of A·hithʹo·phel, with which he counseled in those days, was just as when a man* would inquire of the word of the [true] God.* That was the way all the counsel+ of A·hithʹo·phel+ was both to David and to Abʹsa·lom.

14 He was the son of a widowed woman from the tribe of Naphʹta·li, and his father was a Tyrʹi·an man,+ a worker in copper;+ and he was full of the wisdom and the understanding+ and the knowledge for doing every sort of work in copper. Accordingly he came to King Solʹo·mon and began to do all his work.

19 And the king began to speak with them, and out of them all no one was found like Daniel, Han·a·niʹah, Mishʹa·el and Az·a·riʹah;+ and they continued to stand before the king.+