Discovery Box1 Samuel 1:3 
Context1:3 Year after year 1 this man would go up from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh. It was there that the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, served as the Lord’s priests.
1 Samuel 1:9
Context1:9 On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up. 2 (Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair 3 by the doorpost of the Lord’s temple.)
1 Samuel 1:19
Context1:19 They got up early the next morning and after worshiping the Lord, they returned to their home at Ramah. Elkanah had marital relations with 4 his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered 5 her.
1 Samuel 1:24
Context1:24 Once she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bulls, an ephah 6 of flour, and a container 7 of wine. She brought him to the Lord’s house at Shiloh, even though he was young. 8
1 tn Heb “from days to days.”
2 tc The LXX adds “and stood before the Lord,” but this is probably a textual expansion due to the terseness of the statement in the Hebrew text.
3 tn Or perhaps, “on his throne.” See Joüon 2:506-7 §137.f.
4 tn Heb “Elkanah knew his wife.” The Hebrew expression is a euphemism for sexual relations.
5 sn The Lord “remembered” her in the sense of granting her earlier request for a child. The Hebrew verb is often used in the OT for considering the needs or desires of people with favor and kindness.
6 sn The ephah was a standard dry measure in OT times; it was the equivalent of one-tenth of the OT measure known as a homer. The ephah was equal to approximately one-half to two-thirds of a bushel.
7 tn The Hebrew term translated “container” may denote either a clay storage jar (cf. CEV “a clay jar full of wine”) or a leather container (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV “a skin of wine”; NCV “a leather bag filled with (full of TEV) wine.”
8 tc Heb “and the boy was a boy.” If the MT is correct the meaning apparently is that the boy was quite young at the time of these events. On the other hand, some scholars have suspected a textual problem, emending the text to read either “and the boy was with them” (so LXX) or “and the boy was with her” (a conjectural emendation). In spite of the difficulty it seems best to stay with the MT here.
