⁹ So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. And ^(A)Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him. ¹⁰ As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to attack Israel. ^(B)But the Lord thundered with a mighty sound that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion, and they were defeated before Israel.

¹⁶ Therefore, ^(A)confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, ^(B)that you may be healed. ^(C)The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.^{[a] 17} Elijah was a man ^(D)with a nature like ours, and ^(E)he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for ^(F)three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. ^18 (G)Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.