1 Samuel 1:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 11:26

Jeroboam son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, rebelled against the king.

1 Chronicles 6:12

Ahitub of Zadok, Zadok of Shallum,

1 Chronicles 6:22

The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

1 Chronicles 6:33

These are the men who served, and their sons were: Of the Kohathites: Heman, the singer, son of Joel, son of Samuel,

1 Chronicles 6:34

son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah,

Matthew 27:57

When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph, who also was himself a disciple of Jesus.

Joshua 24:33

Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of his son Phinehas, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

Judges 12:5

Then the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Whenever one of the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead would say to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” When he said, “No,”

Judges 17:1

There was a man in the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.

Judges 19:1

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite residing in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

Judges 4:5

She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites came up to her for judgment.

Ruth 1:2

The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion; they were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.

Ruth 4:22

Obed of Jesse, and Jesse of David.

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 17:12

Now David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.

1 Samuel 2:11

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.

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.

1 Samuel 9:4

He passed through the hill country of Ephraim and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find them. And they passed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then he passed through the land of Benjamin, but they did not find them.

1 Samuel 9:5

When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to the young man who was with him, “Let us turn back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and worry about us.”