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:
Now this man used to go up year by year to worship at Shiloh.  Louise Pettibone Smith misconstrued this passage to mean that, "This pilgrimage only once a year shows that this had nothing to do with the later law of the three national festivals (Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles)."[8] Such a view is founded on the outmoded and discredited theory of a LATE DATE of the Pentateuch.  As Willis declared, "There are indications that this may have been one of the three national festivals mentioned in  Exodus 34:18-24 and  Deuteronomy 16:16."[9]  In fact, no other annual festivals of the Jews existed in those times except the three feasts which were just mentioned.  We agree with Willis that the particular festival that Elkanah attended was probably that the Feast of Tabernacles.