Elkanah and His Wives

1 Now there was a man from ^(A)Ramathaim-zophim from the ^(B)hill country of Ephraim, and his name was ^(C)Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

Samuel Is Born to Hannah

¹⁹ Then they got up early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord, and returned again to their house in ^(A)Ramah. And Elkanah ^[a]had relations with Hannah his wife, and ^(B)the Lord remembered her.

¹¹ Then Elkanah went to his home at ^(A)Ramah. ^(B)But the boy continued to attend to the service of the Lord before Eli the priest.