Who is elkanah in the bible

Josephus Ant. All that is known of him is contained in the above notices and in 1Sa ,4,8,19,21,23; 1Sa ,20, where we learn that he was of a Bethlehemite stock an "Ephrathite;" the Levites not being confined to their cities , but lived at Ramathaim-Zophim in Mount Ephraim, otherwise called Ramah; that he had two wives, Hannah and Peninnah, but had no children by the former, till the birth of Samuel in answer to Hannah's prayer.

We learn also that he lived in the time of Eli the high priest, and of his sons Hophni and Phinehas; that he was a pious man, who went up yearly from Ramathaim-Zophim to Shiloh, in the tribe of Ephraim, to worship and sacrifice at the tabernacle there; but it does not appear that he performed any sacred functions as a Levite; a circumstance quite in accordance with the account which ascribes to David the establishment of the priestly and Levitical courses for the Temple service.

He seems to have been a man of some wealth from the nature of his yearly sacrifice, which enabled him to give portions out of it to all his family, and from the costly offering of three bullocks when Samuel was brought to the house of the Lord at Shiloh. After the birth of Samuel, Elkanah and Hannah continued to live at Ramah where Samuel afterwards had his house, 1Sa , and had three sons and two daughters. Another man of the family of the Korhites who joined David while he was at Ziklag 1Ch From the terms of verse 2, some have thought it doubtful whether this can be the well-known Levitical family of Korhites; but the distinction there seems merely to refer to residents within the tribe of Benjamin, which included the Levitical cities.

May the God of Israel grant the request you have asked of him. Then she went back and began to eat again, and she was no longer sad. Then they returned home to Ramah. When Elkanah slept with Hannah, the Lord remembered her plea, 20 and in due time she gave birth to a son.

Then I will take him to the Tabernacle and leave him there with the Lord permanently. They brought along a three-year-old bull [ i ] for the sacrifice and a basket [ j ] of flour and some wine.

Elkanah went up to Shiloh yearly to offer sacrifice: and when Samuel was old enough, Hannah went with her husband and took her little boy with her. When Eli was high priest a man named Elkanah came up from Ramah to worship, and Hannah his wife went with him. She was Samuel, the wonderful child of Elkanah and Hannah, given to them, like Jephthah and Samson, as a special mark of divine favor, and who early entered the temple Now, at one time there lived in a little cottage on the hill of Ramah, not far from what is now Jerusalem, a certain man named Elkanah , whose wife Hannah had a One day, Hannah, the wife of a priest named Elkanah , came to the Tabernacle to worship.

She was grieved Footnotes: [] From a Discourse on Elkanah and Hannah. In Theodoret, Dial. Elkanah , with Hannah, took the young Samuel to Shiloh when he was weaned, and left him with EIi as their offering to Yahweh. Elkanah , Elka'nah. A Levite who joined David at Ziklag 1 Chronicles A doorkeeper for the ark, perhaps identical with the Levite who joined David at Ziklag above 1 Chronicles Son, or rather grandson, see 1 Chronicles ,23 1 Chronicles ,8 of Korah, according to Exodus A descendant of the above in the line of Ahimoth, otherwise Mahath, 1 Chronicles 6;26,35; Hebrews Another Kohathite Levite, father of Samuel the illustrious judge and prophet.

All that is known of him is contained in the above notices and in 1 Samuel ,4,8,19,21,23 and 1 Samuel ,20 A Levite.

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