Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:
In the Hebrew Bible the description of Samuel’s father and Samson’s father are almost identical (cf. Judges 13:2). The Holy Spirit may have written this to remind us of the unusual Nazirite status of both judges.