1 Samuel 1:3

Easy To Read Version

Every year Elkanah left his town of Ramah and went up to Shiloh. Elkanah worshiped the Lord All-Powerful at Shiloh and offered sacrifices [5] to the Lord there. Shiloh was where Hophni and Phinehas served as priests of the Lord. Hophni and Phinehas were the sons of Eli.

Cross References

Psalm 78:60

God abandoned the Holy Tent at Shiloh. {\cf2\super [454]} \par God lived in that tent among the people.\par

Exodus 23:14

“You will have three special holidays each year. On these holidays, you will come to my special place to worship me.

Exodus 23:17

“So three times each year all the men will come {to the special place} to be with the Lord your Master.

Exodus 34:23

“Three times each year all your men must go to be with the Master, the Lord, the God of Israel.

Luke 2:41

Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Passover {\cf2\super [41]} festival.

Deuteronomy 16:16

“Three times a year all your men must come to meet with the Lord your God at the special place he will choose. They must come for the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. Every person that comes to meet with the Lord must bring a gift.

Joshua 18:1

All of the Israelite people gathered together at Shiloh. At that place they set up the Meeting Tent. [63] The people of Israel controlled that country. They had defeated all the enemies in that land.

Judges 18:31

The people of Dan set up for themselves the idol that Micah had made. That idol was there {in the city of Dan} the whole time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

Judges 21:19

We have an idea! This is the time for the festival of the Lord at the city of Shiloh. This festival is celebrated every year there.” (The city of Shiloh is north of the city of Bethel, and east of the road that goes from Bethel to Shechem. And it is also to the south of the city of Lebonah.)

1 Samuel 1:21

That year Elkanah went {to Shiloh} to offer sacrifices and to keep the promises he made to God. He took his family with him.

1 Samuel 1:9

After eating and drinking, Hannah quietly got up and went to pray to the Lord. Eli the priest was sitting on a chair near the door of the Lord’s Holy Building. [8]

1 Samuel 14:3

One the men was named Ahijah. Ahijah was a son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub. Ichabod was the son of Phinehas. Phinehas was the son of Eli. Eli had been the Lord’s priest at Shiloh. Now Ahijah was the priest—Ahijah now wore the ephod. [128]

1 Samuel 2:19

Every year Samuel’s mother made a little robe for Samuel. She took the little robe to Samuel when she went up {to Shiloh} with her husband for the sacrifice every year.

1 Samuel 2:34

I will give you a sign {to show these things will come true}. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will die on the same day.

1 Samuel 3:13

I told Eli I would punish his family forever. I will do that because Eli knew that his sons were saying and doing bad things against God but Eli failed to control them.

1 Samuel 4:11

The Philistines took God’s Holy Box [46] and killed Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas.

1 Samuel 4:4

So the people sent men to Shiloh. The men brought back the Lord All-Powerful’s Box of the Agreement. [42] On top of the Box are the Cherub angels. They are like the throne that the Lord sits on. Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, came with the Box.