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New Revised Standard

1 Samuel 1:14

So Eli said to her, "How long will you make a drunken spectacle of yourself? Put away your wine."

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."
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

9 After they had eaten and drunk at Shiloh, Hannah rose and presented herself before the Lord . Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the Lord . 10 She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord , and wept bitterly. 11 She made this vow: "O Lord of hosts, if only you will look on the misery of your servant, and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a male child, then I will set him before you as a nazirite until the day of his death. He shall drink neither wine nor intoxicants, and no razor shall touch his head." 12 As she continued praying before the Lord , Eli observed her mouth. 13 Hannah was praying silently; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard; therefore Eli thought she was drunk. 14 So Eli said to her, "How long will you make a drunken spectacle of yourself? Put away your wine." 15 But Hannah answered, "No, my lord, I am a woman deeply troubled; I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the Lord . 16 Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation all this time." 17 Then Eli answered, "Go in peace; the God of Israel grant the petition you have made to him." 18 And she said, "Let your servant find favor in your sight." Then the woman went to her quarters, ate and drank with her husband, and her countenance was sad no longer.

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
In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth,
Genesis 1:2
the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.
Genesis 1:3
Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
Genesis 1:4
And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:6
And God said, "Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters."
Genesis 1:7
So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so.
Genesis 1:8
God called the dome Sky. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.
Genesis 1:9
And God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.
Genesis 1:12
The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
And God said, "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,

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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