to the house of the LORD.
This is a little odd because there is no indication that he lives in a sanctuary
back in the far reaches of the high country of Ephraim. Also, instead of the
preposition ‘el, “to,” the text shows an accusative participle, ‘et.
Many, following the Septuagint, emended the two Hebrew words here to read, “to
my house.” (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W.
Norton & Company, 2019], 2:150)
