1 Samuel 1:3

Elkanah faithfully made yearly pilgrimage to worship and sacrifice to Yahweh at Shiloh, where Eli's sons Hophni and Phinehas served as priests. It shows genuine devotion amid a corrupt priesthood.

Cross-references · 19

• Luke 2:41Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.
• Deut 12:5–7Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
• Josh 18:1Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,
• Exod 23:14Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.
• Exod 34:23Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
• 1 Sam 1:21Then Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,
• 1 Sam 1:9So after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on a chair by the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.
• Deut 16:16Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.
• Judg 18:31So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.
• 1 Sam 2:12–17Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD
• 1 Sam 2:34And this sign shall come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: They will both die on the same day.
• Ps 78:60He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
• Deut 12:11–14then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
• 1 Sam 3:13I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.
• 1 Sam 4:4So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
• 1 Sam 4:11The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
• Exod 23:17Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.
• 1 Sam 4:17–18The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”
• Jer 7:12–14But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

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