1 Samuel 2:11 KJV — MannaFest

1 Samuel 2:11

And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest.

KJV

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ASV

And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto Jehovah before Eli the priest.

WEB

Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy began ministering to the LORD before Eli the priest.

YLT

And Elkanah goeth to Ramath, unto his house, and the youth hath been serving Jehovah, in the presence of Eli the priest;

DBT

And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the boy ministered to Jehovah in the presence of Eli the priest.

About this book

Old Testament

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1 Samuel — The transition from judges to monarchy. Samuel rises as prophet-judge; Israel demands a king; Saul rises and is rejected; David is anointed in obscurity and flees across the wilderness. Three lives overlapping — the prophetic-judicial-royal handoff.

Author: Traditionally Samuel (with additions after his death by Nathan and Gad — cf. 1 Chr 29:29)
Date: Events c. 1050–1010 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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1 Samuel 3:1
And the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
1 Samuel 2:18
But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
Acts 13:2
As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.
1 Samuel 1:19
And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the Lord, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the Lord remembered her.
1 Samuel 1:28
Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord. And he worshipped the Lord there.

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) according as his capacity was. He learned his catechism and was constant to his devotions, soon learned to read, and took a pleasure in the book of the law, and thus he ministered to the Lord. He ministered before Eli, that is, under his inspection, and as he ordered him, not before Eli's sons; all parties were agreed that they were unfit to be his tutors.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

1SA 2:111SA 1:19 1SA 1:11
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1SA 2:111SA 3:1 AMO 8:11-12
1SA 2:111SA 3:1 PSA 74:9
1SA 2:111SA 1:19 GEN 21:1
1SA 2:111SA 3:1 1SA 3:21
1SA 2:111SA 1:19 GEN 30:22
1SA 2:111SA 1:19 GEN 4:1
1SA 2:111SA 1:28 GEN 24:26

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