Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went up with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice.
“Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.
“Make the robe of the ephod entirely of blue cloth,
When her husband Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the Lord and to fulfill his vow,
Year after year this man went up from his town to worship and sacrifice to the Lord Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of the Lord.