1 Samuel 1:1

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ada seorang laki-laki dari Ramataim-Zofim, dari pegunungan Efraim, namanya Elkana bin Yeroham bin Elihu bin Tohu bin Zuf, seorang Efraim.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ada seorang laki-laki dari Ramataim-Zofim, dari pegunungan Efraim, namanya Elkana bin Yeroham bin Elihu bin Tohu bin Zuf, seorang Efraim.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Sebermula, maka adalah seorang laki-laki dari Ramatayim Zofim, yaitu dari pegunungan Efrayim, namanya Elkana bin Yerokham bin Elihu bin Tuhu bin Zuf, seorang Eferati.

Contextual Overview

¹ There was a man of one of the two Ramathaim Zophim, of mout Ephraim, named Elkana, the sonne of Ieroham, the sonne of Elihu, the sonne of Thohu, the sonne of Zuph, an Ephrathite: ² Which had two wyues, the one called Hanna, & the other Phenenna: And Phenenna had children, but Hanna had no children. ³ And this man went vp out of his citie euery yere, to worship and to sacrifice vnto the Lord of hoastes in Silo, where were the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni and Phinehes, the Lordes priestes. ⁴ And it fel on a day, that Elkana offered, and gaue to Phenenna his wyfe, and to all her sonnes and daughters, portions. ⁵ But vnto Hanna he gaue a worthy portion: for he loued Hanna, & the Lorde had made her barren. ⁶ And her enemie [Phenenna] vexed her sore, forasmuche as she vpbrayded her, because the Lord had made her barren. ⁷ (And so dyd he yere by yere) and as oft as she wet vp to the house of the Lord, thus she vexed her, that she wept, and dyd not eate. ⁸ Then sayde Elkana her husband to her: Hanna, why wepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thine hearte troubled? Am not I better to thee then ten sonnes?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ramathaimzophim: This ancient town, now called Ramla, is, according to Phocas, about thirty-six miles west of Jerusalem, and, according to modern travellers, about nine miles from Joppa and a league from Lydda, between which it is situated. It is built on a rising ground, on a rich plain, and contains about two thousand families. 1 Samuel 1:19, Matthew 27:57, Arimathea

mount: Judges 17:1, Judges 19:1

Elkanah: 1 Chronicles 6:25-27, 1 Chronicles 6:34

Zuph: 1 Samuel 9:5

Ephrathite: 1 Samuel 17:12, Judges 12:5, Ruth 1:2, 1 Kings 11:26

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:11 - a nation Genesis 48:7 - Rachel Exodus 6:24 - Elkanah Joshua 18:25 - Ramah Judges 4:5 - between 1 Samuel 7:17 - his return 1 Chronicles 6:26 - Zophai 1 Chronicles 6:27 - Eliab 1 Chronicles 6:35 - Zuph Luke 23:51 - Arimathaea

Cross-References

Genesis 1:4
And God sawe the lyght that it was good: and God deuided the lyght from the darknes.

Genesis 1:5
And God called the light day, and the darknes night: and the euenyng & the mornyng were the first day.

Genesis 1:11
And God sayde: let the earth bryng foorth [both] budde and hearbe apt to seede, and fruitfull trees yeeldyng fruite after his kynde, which hath seede in it selfe vpon the earth: and it was so.

Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth [both] bud and hearbe apt to seede after his kynde, and tree yeeldyng fruite, whiche hath seede in it selfe, after his kynde.

Genesis 1:16
And God made two great lyghtes: a greater lyght to rule the day, and a lesse lyght to rule the nyght, and [he made] starres also.

Genesis 1:17
And God set them in the firmament of the heauen, to shyne vpon the earth,

Genesis 1:19
And the euenyng and the mornyng were the fourth day.

Genesis 1:20
And God sayde: let the waters bryng foorth mouyng creature that hath lyfe, and foule that may flee vpon the earth in the open firmament of heauen.

Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying: Be fruiteful, and multiplie, and fyll the waters of the sea, and let foule multiplie in the earth.

Genesis 1:30
To euery beast of the earth also, and to euery birde of the aire, and to euery such thing that creepeth vpon ye earth, which doth liue, I haue geuen euery greene hearbe for meate: and it was so.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now there was a man of Ramathaimzophim, of Mount Ephraim,.... Ramathaim is a word of the dual number, and signifies two Ramahs; the city consisted of two parts, being built perhaps on two hills, and were called Zophim; because, as the Rabbins say, they looked one to another; or rather, because situated on eminences, there were watchtowers in them, where watchmen were placed; or because they were inhabited by prophets, who were sometimes called watchmen, Ezekiel 3:17 and here is thought to be a school of the prophets, see

1 Samuel 19:19 and which seems to be countenanced by the Targum, in which the words are paraphrased thus, "and there was one" man of Ramatha, of the disciples of the prophets; or, as others think, the sense is this, this man was one of the Ramathites, the inhabitants of Ramah, and of the family of Zuph, or the Zuphites, which gave the name to the land of Zuph, and the grand ancestor of Elkanah is in this verse called Zuph, see 1 Samuel 9:5. According to Jerom e, this is the same with Arimathaea, of which Joseph was, Matthew 27:57 for thus he writes,

"Armatha Sophim, the city of Helcanah and Samuel, in the Thamnitic region near Diospolis (or Lydda), from whence was Joseph, who in the Gospels is said to be of Arimathaea;''

but Reland f thinks it cannot be the same that was about Lydda, which was all a champaign country; whereas this was in the mountains of Ephraim, which must be sought to the north of Jerusalem, and not the west, and so it follows:

of Mount Ephraim: which is added to distinguish it from other Ramahs in several tribes, as in Benjamin, Naphtali, c. though this may refer not to the situation of Ramathaim, but to the country of this man, who was originally of Mount Ephraim, as was the Levite in Judges 19:1 who was the cause of much evil to Israel, as this was of great good, as Kimchi observes:

and his name was Elkanah which signifies "God hath possessed"; that is, possessed him, or he was in possession of God; he had an ancestor of the same name, 1 Chronicles 6:23. This man was a Levite, one of the Kohathites, and a descendant of Korah; so that the famous prophet Samuel was of the sons of Korah:

the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph; the three last of these names are somewhat differently read in 1 Chronicles 6:26, where they are Eliab, Nahath, Zophai; and in 1 Chronicles 6:34. Eliel, Toah, Zuph:

an Ephrathite; which appellation is to be connected, according to Kimchi, not with Elkanah, but with Zuph; though neither of them were so called from Bethlehemjudah, the inhabitants of which were indeed called Ephrathites from Ephratah, another name of it; so Elimelech, and his sons Mahlon and Chilion, being of that city, were so called, Ruth 1:2 not from their being of the tribe of Ephraim, as Jeroboam of that tribe is called an Ephrathite, 1 Kings 11:26, see Judges 12:5 for these were Levites, the descendants of Kohath, in the line of Korah; but because they sojourned in Mount Ephraim, or dwelt there, as Elkanah did; and it is well known that the Kohathites had cities given them in the tribe of Ephraim, Joshua 21:5.

e De loc. Heb. fol. 88. K. f Palestin. Illustrat. tom. 2. p. 581.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ramathaim-zophim may signify “the two hills 1 Samuel 9:11-13 of the watchmen,” so called from its being a post from which the watchmen looked out. But since Zuph is the name of the head of the family, it is more probable that Zophin means the Zuphites, the sons of Zuph (see Zophai, 1 Chronicles 6:26), from whom the land about Ramah was called “the land of Zuph,” 1 Samuel 9:5.

There is reason to believe that Elkanah - an Ephrathite, or inhabitant of Bethlehem 1 Samuel 17:12; Ruth 1:2 and of the territory of the tribe of Ephraim 1 Kings 11:26 - the father of Samuel, represents the fifth generation of settlers in Canaan, and therefore that Samuel was born about 130 years after the entrance into Canaan - four complete generations, or 132 years - and about 40 years before David.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL

-Year from the Creation, 2833.

-Year before the Incarnation, 1171.

-Year before the first Olympiad, 395.

-Year before the building of Rome, 418.

-Year of the Julian Period, 3543.

-Year of the Dionysian Period, 351.

-Cycle of the Sun, 15.

-Cycle of the Moon, 9.

CHAPTER I

Some account of Elkanah and his two wives, Peninnah and Hannah,

1, 2.

His annual worship at Shiloh and the portions he gave at such

times to his wives, 3-5.

Hannah, being barren, is reproached by Peninnah, especially in

their going up to Shiloh; at which she is sorely grieved, 6, 7.

Elkanah comforts her, 8.

Her prayer and vow in the temple, that if God would give her a

son, she would consecrate him to His service, 9-11.

Eli, the high priest, indistinctly hearing her pray, charges her

with being drunk, 12-14.

Her defence of her conduct, 15, 16.

Eli, undeceived, blesses her; on which she takes courage,

17, 18.

Hannah and Elkanah return home; she conceives, bears a son, and

calls him Samuel, 19, 20.

Elkanah and his family go again to Shiloh to worship; but Hannah

stays at home to nurse her child, purposing, as soon as he is

weaned, to go and offer him to the Lord, according to her vow,

21-23.

When weaned, she takes him to Shiloh, presents hear child to Eli

to be consecrated to the Lord, and offers three bullocks, an

ephah of flour, and a bottle of wane, for his consecration,

24-28.

NOTES ON CHAP. I

Verse 1 Samuel 1:1. Ramathaim-zophim — Literally, the two high places of the watchman; these were, no doubt, two contiguous hills, on which watchtowers were built, and in which watchmen kept continual guard for the safety of the country and which afterwards gave name to the place.