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Douay-Rheims Bible

1 Samuel 1:21

And Elcana, her husband, went up, and all his house, to offer to the Lord the solemn sacrifice, and his vow.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Elkanah;   Hannah;   Shiloh;   Vows;   Thompson Chain Reference - Sacrifices;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Peninnah;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Priests and Levites;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Boyhood of Jesus;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elkanah ;   Hannah ;   Shiloh ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hannah;   Jephtha;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Eli;   Smith Bible Dictionary - El'kanah,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Vow;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Samuel the Prophet;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Deuteronomy;   Samuel, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When Elkanah and all his household went up to make the annual sacrifice and his vow offering to the Lord,
Hebrew Names Version
The man Elkana, and all his house, went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
King James Version
And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the Lord the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
Lexham English Bible
So the man Elkanah went up with all his household to make the annual sacrifice to Yahweh and to pay his vow.
English Standard Version
The man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow.
New Century Version
Every year Elkanah went with his whole family to Shiloh to offer sacrifices and to keep the promise he had made to God.
New English Translation
This man Elkanah went up with all his family to make the yearly sacrifice to the Lord and to keep his vow,
Amplified Bible
Then the man Elkanah and all his household went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and pay his vow.
New American Standard Bible
Then the man Elkanah went up with all his household to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So the man Elkanah and all his house went vp to offer vnto the Lord the yeerely sacrifice, and his vowe:
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the man Elkanah went up with all his household to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice and pay his vow.
Contemporary English Version
The next time Elkanah and his family went to offer their yearly sacrifice, he took along a gift that he had promised to give to the Lord .
Complete Jewish Bible
The husband, Elkanah, went up with all his household to offer the yearly sacrifice to Adonai and fulfill his vow.
Darby Translation
And Elkanah her husband, and all his house, went up to sacrifice to Jehovah the yearly sacrifice and his vow.
Easy-to-Read Version
Elkanah went to Shiloh to offer the sacrifice for that year and the gift he had promised to the Lord . He took his family with him.
George Lamsa Translation
And the man Hilkanah and all his household went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifices of his vow.
Good News Translation
The time came again for Elkanah and his family to go to Shiloh and offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice and the special sacrifice he had promised.
Literal Translation
And the man Elkanah and all his house went up to sacrifice to Jehovah a sacrifice of the days, and to vow his vow.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And whan the man Elcana wente vp with all his houßholde to offre sacrifice and his vowe vnto the LORDE at soch tyme as ye custome was,
American Standard Version
And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto Jehovah the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
Bible in Basic English
And the man Elkanah with all his family went up to make the year's offering to the Lord, and to give effect to his oath.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the man Elkana and all his house, went vp to offer vnto the Lorde the yerely sacrifice, and also his vowe.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
King James Version (1611)
And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went vp to offer vnto the Lord the yeerely sacrifice, and his vowe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the man Helkana and all his house went up to offer in Selom the yearly sacrifice, and his vows, and all the tithes of his land.
English Revised Version
And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Elkanah and all his house went up to make the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe hir hosebonde Helcana stiede, and al his hows, to offre a solempne sacrifice, and his avow to the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
And the man Elkanah goeth up, and all his house, to sacrifice to Jehovah the sacrifice of the days, and his vow.
Update Bible Version
And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
World English Bible
The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.
New King James Version
Now the man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and his vow.
New Living Translation
The next year Elkanah and his family went on their annual trip to offer a sacrifice to the Lord and to keep his vow.
New Life Bible
Then Elkanah went up with all those of his house to give the Lord the gift on the altar in worship as he did each year, and to pay what he had promised.
New Revised Standard
The man Elkanah and all his household went up to offer to the Lord the yearly sacrifice, and to pay his vow.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up, to offer unto Yahweh the yearly sacrifice, and each his own vow.
Revised Standard Version
And the man Elka'nah and all his house went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and to pay his vow.
THE MESSAGE
When Elkanah next took his family on their annual trip to Shiloh to worship God , offering sacrifices and keeping his vow, Hannah didn't go. She told her husband, "After the child is weaned, I'll bring him myself and present him before God —and that's where he'll stay, for good."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the man Elkanah went up with all his household to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and pay his vow.

Contextual Overview

19 And they rose in the morning, and worshipped before the Lord: and they returned, and came into their house at Ramatha. And Elcana knew Anna his wife: And the Lord remembered her. 20 And it came to pass when the time was come about, Anna conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel: because she had asked him of the Lord. 21 And Elcana, her husband, went up, and all his house, to offer to the Lord the solemn sacrifice, and his vow. 22 But Anna went not up: for she said to her husband: I will not go till the child be weaned, and till I may carry him, that he may appear before the Lord, and may abide always there. 23 And Elcana, her husband, said to her: Do what seemeth good to thee, and stay till thou wean him: and I pray that the Lord may fulfil his word. So the woman staid at home, and gave her son suck, till she weaned him. 24 And after she had weaned him, she carried him with her, with three calves, and three bushels of flour, and a bottle of wine, and she brought him to the house of the Lord in Silo. Now the child was as yet very young: 25 And they immolated a calf, and offered the child to Heli. 26 And Anna said: I beseech thee, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord: I am that woman, who stood before thee here praying to the Lord. 27 For this child did I pray, and the Lord hath granted me my petition, which I asked of him. 28 Therefore I also have lent him to the Lord all the days of his life, he shall be lent to the Lord. And they adored the Lord there. And Anna prayed, and said:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Samuel 1:3, Genesis 18:19, Joshua 24:15, Psalms 101:2

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 12:26 - thy vows 1 Samuel 2:19 - from year to year Luke 2:41 - went

Cross-References

Genesis 1:18
And to rule the day and the night, and to divide the light and the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:24
And God said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature in its kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth, according to their kinds. And it was so done.
Genesis 1:25
And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and cattle, and every thing that creepeth on the earth after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:26
And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:31
And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 6:20
Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.
Genesis 7:14
They and every beast according to its kind, and all the cattle in their kind, and every thing that moveth upon the earth, according to its kind, and every fowl according to its kind, all birds, and all that fly,
Genesis 8:17
All living things that are with thee of all flesh, as well in fowls as in beasts, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, bring out with thee, and go ye upon the earth: increase and multiply upon it.
Genesis 8:19
And all living things, and cattle, and creeping things that creep upon the earth, according to their kinds went out of the ark.
Genesis 9:7
But increase you and multiply, and go upon the earth and fill it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the man Elkanah, and all his house,.... All his family, excepting Hannah, and her son Samuel; or all the men of his house, as the Targum; for only the males were obliged to appear at the three festivals:

went up to Shiloh; to the house of God there:

to offer unto the Lord the yearly sacrifice; either the passover, to which men commonly went up with their families: see Luke 2:41, or rather it may be what was offered at the feast of tabernacles, as Abarbinel thinks, the time of the ingathering the fruits of the earth, when men went up with their families to offer sacrifice, and express their joy on that account, Deuteronomy 16:10

and his vow: which he had made between feast and feast; for whatever vows men made at home, on any account, they paid them at the yearly festivals; and this vow might be on the account of the birth of his son, by way of thanksgiving for that.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Samuel 1:21. The man Elkanah and all his house — He and the whole of his family, Hannah and her child excepted, who purposed not to go up to Shiloh till her son was old enough to be employed in the Divine service.

And his vow — Probably he had also made some vow to the Lord on the occasion of his wife's prayer and vow; in which, from his love to her. he could not be less interested than herself.


 
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