³ Now this man used to go up ^(A)year by year from his city ^(B)to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts ^(C)at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord.

⁷ So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.

Samuel Given to the Lord

²¹ The man Elkanah and all his house ^(A)went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow.