1 Samuel 2:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then they left him there before the Lord and went home to Ramah, while the boy remained to minister to the Lord in the presence of the priest Eli.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Elkanah and his wife Hannah returned to Ramah to his house. But the child ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest.

American Standard Version (1901)

And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto Jehovah before Eli the priest.

Common English Bible

Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy served the LORD under Eli the priest.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And Elkanah went away to Ramah, to his house. But the boy was a minister in the sight of the Lord, before the face of Eli, the priest.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And Elcana went to Ramatha, to his house: but the child ministered in the sight of the Lord before the face of Heli the priest.

1 Samuel 2:11 Cross References

1 Samuel 1:1

There was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham son of Elihu son of Tohu son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

1 Samuel 1:19

They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. Elkanah knew his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her.

1 Samuel 1:28

Therefore I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he lives, he is given to the Lord.” And they worshiped the Lord there.

1 Samuel 2:18

Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy wearing a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 3:1

Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord under Eli. The word of the Lord was rare in those days; visions were not widespread.

1 Samuel 3:15

Samuel lay there until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the Lord. Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.

1 Samuel 7:17

Then he would come back to Ramah, for his home was there; he administered justice there to Israel and built there an altar to the Lord.