1 Samuel 1:1 meaning and explanation
Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.
1 Samuel 1:1, Berean Standard Bible
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The book opens by introducing Elkanah, a man from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim, and traces his line back four generations to Zuph. This kind of ancestry notice tells ancient readers that Elkanah belongs to a settled, identifiable family, and it sets him in the ordinary world of Israel before the monarchy.
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