1 Samuel 2:19

And his mother made him a little robe and took it to him every year when she came with her husband for the year's offering.

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In The King James Version

Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

In Context

18But Samuel did the work of the Lord's house, while he was a child, dressed in a linen ephod.

20And every year Eli gave Elkanah and his wife a blessing, saying, May the Lord give you offspring by this woman in exchange for the child you have given to the Lord. And they went back to their house.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:14Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me.

1 Samuel 1:21And the man Elkanah with all his family went up to make the year's offering to the Lord, and to give effect to his oath.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 2:12-27

Samuel in the Sanctuary; The Wickedness of Eli's Sons. ( b. c. 1130.) 11 And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest. 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord . 13 And the priests' custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand; 14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the… Read the whole commentary →

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