God’s Word Translation
1 Samuel 1:14
14“How long are you going to stay drunk?” Eli asked her. “Get rid of your wine.”
1 Samuel 1:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
- New International Version (NIV)and said to her, “How long are you going to stay drunk? Put away your wine.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)And Eli said to her, "How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you."
- New King James Version (NKJV)So Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put your wine away from you!”
Context of 1 Samuel 1:14
12While Hannah was praying a long time in front of the Lord, Eli was watching her mouth. 13She was praying silently. Her voice couldn’t be heard; only her lips were moving. Eli thought she was drunk. “How long are you going to stay drunk?” Eli asked her. “Get rid of your wine.” 15Hannah responded, “No sir. I’m not drunk. I’m depressed. I’m pouring out my heart to the Lord. 16Don’t take me to be a good-for-nothing woman. I was praying like this because I’ve been troubled and tormented.”
Read all of 1 Samuel 11 Samuel 1:14 word by word
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלֶ֙יהָ֙ עֵלִ֔י עַד־מָתַ֖י תִּשְׁתַּכָּרִ֑ין הָסִ֥ירִי אֶת־יֵינֵ֖ךְ מֵעָלָֽיִךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for 1 Samuel 1:14
- Joshua 22:12When the people of Israel heard about it, the whole congregation of Israel gathered at Shiloh. They intended to wage war against them.
- Job 8:2“How long will you say these things? How long will your words be so windy?
- Psalms 62:3How long will all of you attack a person? How long will you try to murder him, as though he were a leaning wall or a sagging fence?
- Proverbs 6:9How long will you lie there, you lazy bum? When will you get up from your sleep?
- Matthew 7:1“Stop judging so that you will not be judged.
- Job 11:14If you’re holding on to sin, put it far away, and don’t let injustice live in your tent.
- Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will prosper. If you put wrongdoing out of your tent,
- Proverbs 4:24Remove dishonesty from your mouth. Put deceptive speech far away from your lips.
- Ephesians 4:25So then, get rid of lies. Speak the truth to each other, because we are all members of the same body.
Commentaries on 1 Samuel 1:14
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-18Verses 9-18 Hannah mingled tears with her prayers; she considered the mercy of our God, who knows the troubled soul. God gives us leave, in prayer, not only to ask good things in general, but to mention that special good thing we most need and desire. She spoke softly, none could hear her. Hereby she testified her belief of God's knowledge of the heart and its desires. Eli was high priest, and judge in Israel. It ill becomes us to be rash and hasty in…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-14Some people may have used the feast times at Shiloh to drink too much alcohol instead of worshiping. Eli wrongly thought Hannah was just another person who was drunk (see Acts 2:13–15).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 12-1812-18. Eli marked her mouth--The suspicion of the aged priest seems to indicate that the vice of intemperance was neither uncommon nor confined to one sex in those times of disorder. This mistaken impression was immediately removed, and, in the words, "God grant," or rather, "will grant," was followed by an invocation which, as Hannah regarded it in the light of a prophecy pointing to the accomplishment of her earnest desire, dispelled her sadness, and…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Samuel 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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