Thematic Bible: Elkanah


Thematic Bible



And every year Eli gave Elkanah and his wife a blessing, saying, May the Lord give you offspring by this woman in exchange for the child you have given to the Lord. And they went back to their house.

Then her husband Elkanah said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? and why are you taking no food? why is your heart troubled? am I not more to you than ten sons?

And early in the morning they got up, and after worshipping before the Lord they went back to Ramah, to their house: and Elkanah had connection with his wife; and the Lord kept her in mind.

Then Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child became the servant of the Lord under the direction of Eli the priest.

The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son, Samuel his son.

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite of the hill-country of Ephraim, named Elkanah; he was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:

And when the day came for Elkanah to make his offering, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, their part of the feast:

And the man Elkanah with all his family went up to make the year's offering to the Lord, and to give effect to his oath.

And her husband Elkanah said to her, Do whatever seems right to you, but not till you have taken him from the breast; only may the Lord do as he has said. So the woman, waiting there, gave her son milk till he was old enough to be taken from the breast.


And the sons of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph: these are the families of the Korahites.

Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,


The son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,

Elkanah his son: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,


And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.

And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who were living in the small towns of the Netophathites.

The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,


And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the ark.


Elkanah and Isshiah and Azarel and Joezer and Jashobeam, the Korahites;


And Zichri, a great fighting-man of Ephraim, put to death Maaseiah, the king's son, and Azrikam, the controller of his house, and Elkanah, who was second in authority to the king.


And when the day came for Elkanah to make his offering, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters, their part of the feast: But to Hannah he gave one part, though Hannah was very dear to him, but the Lord had not let her have children.


And Zichri, a great fighting-man of Ephraim, put to death Maaseiah, the king's son, and Azrikam, the controller of his house, and Elkanah, who was second in authority to the king.


And he had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah: and Peninnah was the mother of children, but Hannah had no children.


And early in the morning they got up, and after worshipping before the Lord they went back to Ramah, to their house: and Elkanah had connection with his wife; and the Lord kept her in mind.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain