1 Samuel 1:3 New English Translation
3 This man would go up from his city year after year[a] to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of Heaven’s Armies at Shiloh.[b] (It was there that the two sons of Eli,[c] Hophni and Phinehas, served as the Lord’s priests.)
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- 1 Samuel 1:3 tn Heb “from days to days.” In this phrase “days” idiomatically means a year, as a set of days.
- 1 Samuel 1:3 sn From the book of Judges we know that Israel often struggled with idolatry during this time period. This introduction to Elkanah portrays him as a faithful worshiper of the Lord (whatever his faults may have been) at a time when “each man did what he considered to be right” (Judg 17:6; 21:25).
- 1 Samuel 1:3 tc LXX “Eli and his two sons.”
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