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The NET Bible®

1 Samuel 1:14

So he said to her, "How often do you intend to get drunk? 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!"
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

9 On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up. (Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair by the doorpost of the Lord 's temple.) 10 She was very upset as she prayed to the Lord , and she was weeping uncontrollably. 11 She made a vow saying, "O Lord of hosts, if you will look with compassion on the suffering of your female servant, remembering me and not forgetting your servant, and give a male child to your servant, then I will dedicate him to the Lord all the days of his life. His hair will never be cut." 12 As she continued praying to the Lord , Eli was watching her mouth. 13 Now Hannah was speaking from her heart. Although her lips were moving, her voice was inaudible. Eli therefore thought she was drunk. 14 So he said to her, "How often do you intend to get drunk? Put away your wine!" 15 But Hannah replied, "That's not the way it is, my lord! I am under a great deal of stress. I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to the Lord . 16 Don't consider your servant a wicked woman, for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish." 17 Eli replied, "Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant the request that you have asked of him." 18 She said, "May I, your servant, find favor in your sight." So the woman went her way and got something to eat. Her face no longer looked sad.

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 God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:2
Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.
Genesis 1:3
God said, "Let there be light." And there was light!
Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness.
Genesis 1:6
God said, "Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water."
Genesis 1:7
So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.
Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse "sky." There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:9
God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear." It was so.
Genesis 1:12
The land produced vegetation—plants yielding seeds according to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:14
God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be signs to indicate seasons and 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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