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 2:41His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.
• Deut 12:5–7But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and there you shall come.
• Josh 18:1The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.
• Exod 23:14“You shall observe a feast to me three times a year.
• Exod 34:23Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
• 1 Sam 1:21The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
• 1 Sam 1:9So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.
• Deut 16:16Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.
• Judg 18:31So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.
• 1 Sam 2:12–17Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.
• 1 Sam 2:34“‘This will be the sign to you, that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.
• Ps 78:60So that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
• Deut 12:11–14then it shall happen that to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to Yahweh.
• 1 Sam 3:13For I have told him that I will judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.
• 1 Sam 4:4So the people sent to Shiloh; and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above the cherubim: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
• 1 Sam 4:11God’s ark was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
• Exod 23:17Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.
• 1 Sam 4:17–18He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”
• Jer 7:12–14“But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

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