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He had two wives. The name of one of them was Hannah, and the name of the other was Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah did not have any children. This man would travel from his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts[a] in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests there.

When Elkanah performed his sacrifice, he would give a portion of it to Peninnah his wife and a portion each to all of her sons and daughters,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 1:3 Lord of hosts: Hebrew, Jahve seba’ot. The meaning is that God is the God of all the creatures, heavenly and earthly, in the universe, and that these are regarded as a single well-ordered multitude of beings.