1 Samuel 1:3

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This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Hosts in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there.

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Ramathaim-zophim was the hill-country home of Elkanah’s family in Ephraim, from which he traveled yearly to worship. Shiloh, likely in central Ephraim, housed the tabernacle and served as Israel’s principal sanctuary, making it the setting for this family’s faithful sacrificial worship.

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1 Samuel 1:3 mentions Ramathaim-zophim and Shiloh.