Verse Lens · Concise explanation
1 Samuel 1:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.
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Quick Meaning
Establishes the household's yearly worship at Shiloh and names Eli's priestly sons.
Read It With
- 1 Samuel 1:1–1:8
Verse 1:3 belongs to “Hannah bears grief inside a divided household.” It establishes the household's yearly worship at Shiloh and names Eli's priestly sons; detached from the full unit, that contribution can be mistaken for the unit's whole claim.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The unit “Hannah bears grief inside a divided household” needs this line's precise work: it establishes the household's yearly worship at Shiloh and names Eli's priestly sons. The verse remains one part of the scene rather than its complete claim.
What Remains True
Establishes the household's yearly worship at Shiloh and names Eli's priestly sons. Within 1 Samuel 1:1–1:8, this contribution supports the unit's enduring claim: Faithful reading of “Hannah bears grief inside a divided household” keeps truth, power, and human cost together. The scene does not blame Hannah for infertility, measure a woman's worth by children, excuse household rivalry, or make a husband's affection sufficient care.
How It Can Shape Life
- Establishes the household's yearly worship at Shiloh and names Eli's priestly sons. The proportionate response is therefore the one traced from the complete unit: Meet grief like the pain visible in “Hannah bears grief inside a divided household” with patient listening, practical care, truthful prayer, and access to appropriate support; do not promise the same outcome or explain suffering by blame. The scene does not blame Hannah for infertility, measure a woman's worth by children, excuse household rivalry, or make a husband's affection sufficient care.
Continue in Context
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Read 1 Samuel 1:1–1:8 — Hannah bears grief inside a divided householdSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.
Exact location: 1 Samuel 1:1–1:8, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Samuel
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology, with the two KJV-Hebrew versification shifts stated rather than silently offset.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Sam.xml, OSIS 1:1–1:8; KJV 20:42 spans Hebrew 20:42–21:1, KJV 21:1–15 maps to Hebrew 21:2–16, KJV 23:29 maps to Hebrew 24:1, and KJV 24:1–22 maps to Hebrew 24:2–23
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: 1 Samuel
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Only the translator notes actually printed for these verses, used for lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, and older-English controls.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Notes, 1 Samuel PDF, printed pp. 504–543, exact tc/tn/sn entries attached to 1:1–1:8
Open source ↗