1 Samuel 1:3
And this man went up out of his city upon the appointed days, to adore and to offer sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Silo. And the two sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were there priests of the Lord.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Exodus 23:17Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God.
Deuteronomy 12:5But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:
Deuteronomy 16:16Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. No one shall appear with his hands empty before the Lord:
Judges 18:31And the idol of Michas remained with them all the time that the house of God was in Silo. In those days there was no king in Israel.
1 Samuel 1:21And Elcana her husband went up, and all his house, to offer to the Lord the solemn sacrifice, and his vow.
1 Samuel 2:19And his mother made him a little coat, which she brought to him on the appointed days, when she went up with her husband, to offer the solemn sacrifice.
Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 1:2-9
First Samuel This book, and that which follows it, bear the name of Samuel in the title, not because he was the penman of them (except of so much of them as fell within his own time, to the twenty-fifth chapter of the first book, in which we have an account of his death), but because the first book begins with a large account of him, his birth and childhood, his life and government; and the rest of these two volumes that are denominated from him contains the history of the reigns of Saul and David, who were both… Read the whole commentary →