and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”
Parallel translations
- WEB Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
- KJV And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
- 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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Quick answer
Eli rebuked Hannah, telling her to put away her wine, assuming she was drunk. His hasty rebuke wronged a faithful woman.
Overview
Eli's quick judgment reveals how low expectations had fallen at Shiloh, where drunkenness at the sanctuary was evidently believable. He confronts the wrong person, misreading devotion as dissipation. The episode quietly indicts the failing leadership that the rest of the book will judge more openly.
Cross-references & the web
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- Matt 7:1–3“Do not judge, or you will be judged.
- Job 8:2“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
- Eph 4:25Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
- Job 11:14if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
- Josh 22:12–20And when they heard this, the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.
- Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
- Prov 4:24Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.
- Eph 4:31Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
- Prov 6:9How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
- Ps 62:3How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?
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