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

As he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she taunted her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

He went from year to year in circuit to Bethel and Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

Saul reigned a year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,