Cross references

1 Samuel 1:1

Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

1 Samuel 1:1 BSB
  1. a Or from Ramathaim, a Zuphite; see LXX and 1 Chronicles 6:26 and 35.
  2. b Elihu is also called Eliab and Eliel; see 1 Chronicles 6:27 and 34.

1 Samuel 1:1 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Chronicles 6:34 (7 votes) and 1 Chronicles 6:25–27 (6 votes). 14 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Genesis 35 to Luke 23.

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Which verses does 1 Samuel 1:1 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

  2. The descendants of Elkanah: Amasai, Ahimoth, Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son, …

  3. The next morning they got up early to bow in worship before the LORD, and then they returned home to Ramah. And Elkanah had relations with his wife Hannah, and the LORD remembered her.

  4. Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim

  5. Ruth 1:24 votes

    The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.

  6. Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

  7. When they reached the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant, “Come, let us go back, or my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and start worrying about us.”

  8. Eleazar son of Aaron also died, and they buried him at Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.

  9. The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim would say, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites would ask him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”

  10. Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah who had eight sons. And in the days of Saul, Jesse was old and well along in years.

Which verses point to 1 Samuel 1:1?

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