So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the door-post of the temple of Yahweh.
"Now Eli was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the Lord." According to R. Payne Smith, the "seat" mentioned here was a kind of "pontifical throne at the entrance to the inner court of the tabernacle."[12]