1 Samuel 1:1

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Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:

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Ramathaim-zophim was a hill-country town in Ephraim, identified with Elkanah’s home region; its location frames Samuel’s family background. Shiloh, where Israel’s central sanctuary and ark were then located, is where Elkanah’s household worshiped and where Hannah’s prayer would shape the narrative.

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1 Samuel 1:1 mentions Ramathaim-zophim and Shiloh.