3And 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.
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Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
But 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: …
And 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.
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)We have here an account of the state of the family into which Samuel the prophet was born. His father’s name was Elkanah, a Levite, and of the family of the Kohathites (the most honourable house of that tribe) as appears, 1 Chron. 6:33 , 34 . His ancestor Zuph was an Ephrathite, that is, of Bethlehem-Judah, which was called Ephrathah , Ruth 1:2. There this family of the Levites was first seated, b…
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