Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 1:3

3 And this man went up out of his city yearly , to worship, and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh , and the two sons of Eli, Hophni, and Phinehas, the priests of the LORD, were there .

To wit, at one of the Solemn Feasts, which probably was the Passeover, when he not only went up himself, but carried his Wife and Children with him. Compare v. 7. Or, at the appointed days or times: Heb. from days to days; or, from time to time, i. e. at the three Solemn Feasts, when he together with all other Males were obliged to go to worship God in the place appointed; and at other times, when he as a Levite, was to go thither in his course.

Not in his own Person, which the Levites could not do, but by the Priests, in which sence David, and Solomon, and Absalom are said to offer Sacrifices, 2 Sam. 15. 8. 1 King. 8. 63. 1 Chron. 21. 26.

Where the Tabernacle had long been and now was. See Ios. 18. 1. Iudg. 18. 31. and 21. 19.

Or, were the Priests of the Lord there, to wit, under their Father Eli, who is generally conceived to have been the High-Priest, but being very Old and Infirm, 1 Sam. 4. 15. and unfit for service, his Sons Ministred in his stead, being as it were second Priests. See 2 King. 25. 18. And this Clause seems to be added, to shew that this good Man did not run into that Vulgar Error, of neglecting his Duty of Offering to God for the wickedness of the Priests; Of which see chap. 2. 17, 24.

Marginal references: Deut. 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. 6.; Heb. from days to days, Lev. 25. 29.