And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
Parallel translations
- WEB Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
- 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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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
Cross-references · 10
- Matt 7:1–3Judge not, that ye be not judged.
- Job 8:2How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
- Eph 4:25Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
- Job 11:14If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
- Josh 22:12–20And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
- Job 22:23If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
- Prov 4:24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
- Eph 4:31Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
- Prov 6:9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
- Ps 62:3How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
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