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1 Samuel 1:3,21 - Compare All Versions

1 Samuel 1:3 NIV (New International Version)

Year after year this man went up from his town to worship and sacrifice to the LORD Almighty at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests of the LORD.

1 Samuel 1:21 NIV (New International Version)

When her husband Elkanah went up with all his family to offer the annual sacrifice to the LORD and to fulfill his vow

1 Samuel 1:3 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)

Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the LORD.

1 Samuel 1:21 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)

The man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow.

1 Samuel 1:3 NLT (New Living Translation)

Each year Elkanah would travel to Shiloh to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Heaven’s Armies at the Tabernacle. The priests of the LORD at that time were the two sons of Eli—Hophni and Phinehas.

1 Samuel 1:21 NLT (New Living Translation)

The next year Elkanah and his family went on their annual trip to offer a sacrifice to the LORD and to keep his vow.

1 Samuel 1:3 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)

This man would go up from his town every year  to worship and to sacrifice  to the LORD of Armies at Shiloh,  where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were the LORD’s priests.

1 Samuel 1:21 CSB (Christian Standard Bible)

When Elkanah and all his household went up to make the annual sacrifice  and his vow offering to the LORD

1 Samuel 1:3 KJV (King James Version)

And 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.

1 Samuel 1:21 KJV (King James Version)

And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto the LORD the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

1 Samuel 1:3 NKJV (New King James Version)

This man went up from his city yearly to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. Also the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there.

I Samuel 1:21 NKJV (New King James Version)

Now the man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and his vow.

1 Samuel 1:3-7 MSG (The Message)

Every year this man went from his hometown up to Shiloh to worship and offer a sacrifice to GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies. Eli and his two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, served as the priests of GOD there. When Elkanah sacrificed, he passed helpings from the sacrificial meal around to his wife Peninnah and all her children, but he always gave an especially generous helping to Hannah because he loved her so much, and because GOD had not given her children. But her rival wife taunted her cruelly, rubbing it in and never letting her forget that GOD had not given her children. This went on year after year. Every time she went to the sanctuary of GOD she could expect to be taunted. Hannah was reduced to tears and had no appetite.

1 Samuel 1:21-22 MSG (The Message)

When Elkanah next took his family on their annual trip to Shiloh to worship GOD, offering sacrifices and keeping his vow, Hannah didn’t go. She told her husband, “After the child is weaned, I’ll bring him myself and present him before GOD—and that’s where he’ll stay, for good.”

1 Samuel 1:3 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)

Now this man would go up from his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of armies in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD there.

1 Samuel 1:21 NASB2020 (New American Standard Bible - NASB)

Then the man Elkanah went up with all his household to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow.

1 Samuel 1:3 AMP (Amplified Bible)

This man went up from his city each year to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of hosts at Shiloh. Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were priests to the LORD there.

1 Samuel 1:21 AMP (Amplified Bible)

Then the man Elkanah and all his household went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and pay his vow.

1 Samuel 1:3 NET (New English Translation)

Year after year 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 1:21 NET (New English Translation)

This man Elkanah went up with all his family to make the yearly sacrifice to the LORD and to keep his vow