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1 Samuel 1:3
New English Translation
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.”
1 Samuel 1:3
New King James Version
1 Samuel 1:3
New King James Version
3 This man went up from his city (A)yearly (B)to worship and sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in (C)Shiloh. Also the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord, were there.
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1 Samuel 1:3
English Standard Version
1 Samuel 1:3
English Standard Version
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.
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1 Samuel 1:3
New International Version
1 Samuel 1:3
New International Version
3 Year after year(A) this man went up from his town to worship(B) and sacrifice to the Lord Almighty at Shiloh,(C) where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli,(D) were priests of the Lord.
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