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 2:41Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
• Deut 12:5–7But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
• Josh 18:1And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
• Exod 23:14Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
• Exod 34:23Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
• 1 Sam 1:21And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
• 1 Sam 1:9So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.
• Deut 16:16Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
• Judg 18:31And they set them up Micah’s graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
• 1 Sam 2:12–17Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
• 1 Sam 2:34And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.
• Ps 78:60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
• Deut 12:11–14Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD:
• 1 Sam 3:13For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
• 1 Sam 4:4So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
• 1 Sam 4:11And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
• Exod 23:17Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.
• 1 Sam 4:17–18And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
• Jer 7:12–14But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

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