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Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
1 Samuel 1:14 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
  • BSB and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”
  • NKJV So Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put your wine away from you!”
  • NASB Then Eli said to her, “How long will you behave like a drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
  • NLT “Must you come here drunk?” he demanded. “Throw away your wine!”

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 10

  • Matt 7:1–3“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.
  • Job 8:2“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
  • Eph 4:25Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.
  • Job 11:14If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away. Don’t let unrighteousness dwell in your tents.
  • Josh 22:12–20When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.
  • Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.
  • Prov 4:24Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
  • Eph 4:31Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
  • Prov 6:9How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?
  • Ps 62:3How long will you assault a man, would all of you throw him down, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?

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  • VideoBibleProject — 1 Samuel videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.

  • CommentaryClassic commentaries for this verseBibleHub (20+ works) · Pastoral · Free

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on 1 SamuelMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

The rise of the anointed king after Israel's failed first choice points to the true Anointed One (Messiah means 'anointed'), the shepherd-king after God's own heart from Bethlehem.

How 1 Samuel 1:14 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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