1. There was a man named Elkanah who lived in Ramah in the region of Zuph in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, of Ephraim.
2. Elkanah had two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah did not.
3. 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.