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1 Samuel 1:14

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Barrenness;   Children;   Drunkenness;   Eli;   Hannah;   Meekness;   Misjudgment;   Prayer;   Samuel;   Uncharitableness;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Accusations, False;   Evil;   False;   Silence-Speech;   Slander;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Drunkenness;   Peninnah;   Wine;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hannah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Gods and Goddesses, Pagan;   Priest, Priesthood;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Prayer;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hannah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Banquets;   Jephthah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mother;   Samuel, Books of;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Priests and Levites;   Samuel, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Soberness Sobriety;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Elkanah ;   Hannah ;   Shiloh ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hannah;   Jephtha;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Eli;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Samuel the Prophet;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Male;   Samuel, Books of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Festivals;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and said to her, “How long are you going to be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
Hebrew Names Version
`Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your wine from you.
King James Version
And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
Lexham English Bible
Then Eli said to her, "How long will you behave like someone who is drunk? Put away your wine!"
English Standard Version
And Eli said to her, "How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you."
New Century Version
and said to her, "Stop getting drunk! Throw away your wine!"
New English Translation
So he said to her, "How often do you intend to get drunk? Put away your wine!"
Amplified Bible
Eli said to her, "How long will you make yourself drunk? Get rid of your wine."
New American Standard Bible
Then Eli said to her, "How long will you behave like a drunk? Get rid of your wine!"
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Eli sayde vnto her, Howe long wilt thou be drunken? Put away thy drunkennesse from thee.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Eli said to her, "How long will you make yourself drunk? Put away your wine from you."
Contemporary English Version
"How long are you going to stay drunk?" he asked. "Sober up!"
Complete Jewish Bible
‘Eli said to her, "How long are you going to stay drunk? Stop drinking your wine!"
Darby Translation
And Eli said to her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
Easy-to-Read Version
He said to her, "You have had too much to drink. It is time to put away the wine."
George Lamsa Translation
And Eli said to her, How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine from you.
Good News Translation
and he said to her, "Stop making a drunken show of yourself Stop your drinking and sober up!"
Literal Translation
And Eli said to her, Until when will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde vnto her: How longe wilt thou be dronken? Let come from the the wyne that thou hast by the.
American Standard Version
And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
Bible in Basic English
And Eli said to her, How long are you going to be the worse for drink? Put away the effects of your wine from you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Eli sayde vnto her: Howe long wilt thou be drunken? Put away from thee the wine that thou hast.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Eli said unto her: 'How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.'
King James Version (1611)
And Eli said vnto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the servant of Heli said to her, How long wilt thou be drunken? take away thy wine from thee, and go out from the presence of the Lord.
English Revised Version
And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
Berean Standard Bible
and said to her, "How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he seide to hyr, Hou longe schalt thou be drunkun? Difye thou a litil the wyn, `bi which thou art moist.
Young's Literal Translation
And Eli saith unto her, `Until when are thou drunken? turn aside thy wine from thee.'
Update Bible Version
And Eli said to her, How long will you be drunk? put your wine away from you.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Eli said to her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
World English Bible
Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your wine from you.
New King James Version
So Eli said to her, "How long will you be drunk? Put your wine away from you!"
New Living Translation
"Must you come here drunk?" he demanded. "Throw away your wine!"
New Life Bible
Eli said to her, "How long will you be drunk? Put wine away from you."
New Revised Standard
So Eli said to her, "How long will you make a drunken spectacle of yourself? Put away your wine."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Eli said unto her, How long, wilt thou be, drunken? Put away thy wine from thee.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And said to her: How long wilt thou be drunk? digest a little the wine, of which thou hast taken too much.
Revised Standard Version
And Eli said to her, "How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Eli said to her, "How long will you make yourself drunk? Put away your wine from you."

Contextual Overview

9So Hannah ate. Then she pulled herself together, slipped away quietly, and entered the sanctuary. The priest Eli was on duty at the entrance to God 's Temple in the customary seat. Crushed in soul, Hannah prayed to God and cried and cried—inconsolably. Then she made a vow: Oh, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, If you'll take a good, hard look at my pain, If you'll quit neglecting me and go into action for me By giving me a son, I'll give him completely, unreservedly to you. I'll set him apart for a life of holy discipline. 12It so happened that as she continued in prayer before God , Eli was watching her closely. Hannah was praying in her heart, silently. Her lips moved, but no sound was heard. Eli jumped to the conclusion that she was drunk. He approached her and said, "You're drunk! How long do you plan to keep this up? Sober up, woman!" 15Hannah said, "Oh no, sir—please! I'm a woman hard used. I haven't been drinking. Not a drop of wine or beer. The only thing I've been pouring out is my heart, pouring it out to God . Don't for a minute think I'm a bad woman. It's because I'm so desperately unhappy and in such pain that I've stayed here so long." 17 Eli answered her, "Go in peace. And may the God of Israel give you what you have asked of him." 18 "Think well of me—and pray for me!" she said, and went her way. Then she ate heartily, her face radiant.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

How long: Joshua 22:12-20, Job 8:2, Psalms 62:3, Proverbs 6:9, Matthew 7:1-3

put away: Job 11:14, Job 22:23, Proverbs 4:24, Ephesians 4:25, Ephesians 4:31

Reciprocal: Acts 2:13 - These Ephesians 4:22 - ye

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don't see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.
Genesis 1:3
God spoke: "Light!" And light appeared. God saw that light was good and separated light from dark. God named the light Day, he named the dark Night. It was evening, it was morning— Day One.
Genesis 1:6
God spoke: "Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!" God made sky. He separated the water under sky from the water above sky. And there it was: he named sky the Heavens; It was evening, it was morning— Day Two.
Genesis 1:9
God spoke: "Separate! Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place; Land, appear!" And there it was. God named the land Earth. He named the pooled water Ocean. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
God spoke: "Lights! Come out! Shine in Heaven's sky! Separate Day from Night. Mark seasons and days and years, Lights in Heaven's sky to give light to Earth." And there it was.
Genesis 1:16
God made two big lights, the larger to take charge of Day, The smaller to be in charge of Night; and he made the stars. God placed them in the heavenly sky to light up Earth And oversee Day and Night, to separate light and dark. God saw that it was good. It was evening, it was morning— Day Four.
Genesis 1:20
God spoke: "Swarm, Ocean, with fish and all sea life! Birds, fly through the sky over Earth!" God created the huge whales, all the swarm of life in the waters, And every kind and species of flying birds. God saw that it was good. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Ocean! Birds, reproduce on Earth!" It was evening, it was morning— Day Five.
Genesis 1:26
God spoke: "Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature So they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, And, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth." God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God's nature. He created them male and female. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth."
Genesis 1:31
God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning— Day Six.
Genesis 8:22
For as long as Earth lasts, planting and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, day and night will never stop."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Eli said unto her, how long wilt thou be drunken?.... What, every day drunk? what, continually in this wicked practice? when will it be stopped? for Eli might have observed on other days, and at other times, odd looks, and a strange behaviour in her, which he took for the effects of drinking too much wine: or how long will this drunken fit last? she had been a considerable time as he thought in it, and it was not gone off yet: the Targum is,

"how long wilt thou behave like a fool, or a mad woman?''

as drunken people generally do act, as if they were fools, or mad:

put away thy wine from thee; not as if she had any with her there to drink of, but he advises her, since it had such an effect upon her, to abstain from it, and wholly disuse it, and so break off such an habit and custom she had got into; or he would have her go home and sleep it out, and wait till she had digested it, and the strength of it was gone off, before she came to such a place of devotion and worship; from hence the Jews say w it may be learnt, that a drunken person ought not to pray.

w T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 31. 1.


 
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