So Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put your wine away from you!”
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.
- BSB and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”
- 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 7:1–3“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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