It happened year after year, as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she would provoke her; so she wept and would not eat.

Now when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with a three-year-old bull and one ephah of flour and a jug of wine, and brought him to the house of the Lord in Shiloh, although the child was young.

And his mother would make him a little robe and bring it to him from year to year when she would come up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.