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1 Samuel 1:3

in 1 Samuel 1

Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And this man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice unto Jehovah of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests unto Jehovah, were there.

KJV

And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.

This verse in 1 Samuel 1

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
It is likely that during the unsettled times of the Judges Jdg 21:25 the attendance of Israelites at the three Festivals Exo 34:23; Deu 16:16 fell into desuetude or great irregularity, and this one feast (see the marginal reference), which may have coincided with the Feast of Pentecost or tabernacles, may have been substituted for them. The Lord of Hosts - This title of Yahweh which, with some variations, is found upward of 260 times in the Old Testament, occurs here for the first time.

This site's exposition

sacrifice unto the Lord of hosts

The title the Lord of hosts enters Scripture for the first time in this verse, at Shiloh, in a family bringing its yearly sacrifice rather than at any council of war; 17:45 will later give the name its battle sense, the God of the armies of Israel. Hophni and Phinehas are named here as the priests of the Lord, and the reader who has not yet reached chapter two already meets the men whose corruption will empty this same sanctuary. Shiloh stands at its height in this verse, and the book never lets it stand so high again.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Although a Levite, he could not personally offer a sacrifice--that was exclusively the office of the priests; and his piety in maintaining a regular attendance on the divine ordinances is the more worthy of notice because the character of the two priests who administered them was notoriously bad.

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְעָלָה֩and he went up

    vealahH5927890 times

  • הָאִ֨ישׁthe man

    haishH3761663 times

  • הַה֤וּא<the> that

    hahu'H19311879 times

  • מֵֽעִירוֹ֙from city his

    meiroH58921090 times

  • מִיָּמִ֣ים׀from days

    miyamimH31172304 times

  • יָמִ֔ימָהdays towards

    yamimahH31172304 times

  • לְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֹ֧תto bow down

    lehishtachavotH7812172 times

  • וְלִזְבֹּ֛חַand to sacrifice

    velizboachH2076134 times

  • לַיהוָ֥הto Yahweh

    layahwehH30686520 times

  • צְבָא֖וֹתof hosts

    tzevaotH6635485 times

  • בְּשִׁלֹ֑הat Shiloh

    beshilohH788732 times

  • וְשָׁ֞םand there

    veshamH8033834 times

  • שְׁנֵ֣י[the] two

    sheneiH8147768 times

  • בְנֵֽי־[the] sons of

    venei-H11214930 times

  • עֵלִ֗יEli

    ʾeliH594133 times

  • חָפְנִי֙Hophni

    chafeniH26525 times

  • וּפִ֣נְחָ֔סand Phinehas

    ufinchasH637225 times

  • כֹּהֲנִ֖ים[were] priests

    kohanimH3548750 times

  • לַיהוָֽה׃of Yahweh

    layahwehH30686520 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Exodus 34:23

    Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 23:17

      Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Deuteronomy 16:16

      Three 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…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Exodus 23:14

      Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.

  • Through

    Joshua 18:1

    Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,

    it leads to

    • Joshua 19:51

      These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families distributed by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance…

    • Joshua 21:2

      at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said to them, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities in which to live, together with pasturelands for our livestock.”

    • Joshua 22:9

      So the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead, which they had acquired according to…

    • Jeremiah 26:6

      then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”

  • Through

    Luke 2:41

    Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 23:5

      The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

Where this verse is studied

About 1 Samuel

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and W. G. Blaikie, The First Book of Samuel (Expositor's Bible).