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1 Samuel 1:14
and said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Put away your wine!”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Eli confronts Hannah at the tabernacle in Shiloh while she stands praying silently with moving lips. He issues the rebuke immediately after mistaking her silent devotion for intoxication.
The words — The Hebrew תִשְתַכַּרִי (tishtakkeri) means "will you be drunk," paired with הָסִירִי (hasiri), "remove," directed at her wine. These terms frame her prolonged physical motion as a temporary state requiring immediate correction.
The thread — The interrogative "How long" echoes Job 8:2’s rebuke of prolonged empty speech, while the command to remove wine parallels Job 11:14’s instruction to clear injustice from one’s tents. The location anchors the scene to Joshua 22:12, where Shiloh functioned as the center of Israel’s communal accountability.
Why it lands — The text records an observer mistaking silent prayer for drunkenness and demanding its cessation. It asks the reader to verify the source of unexplained behavior before issuing correction, recognizing that outward stillness or motion may conceal inward spiritual activity.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
Cross-references
- Joshua 22:12 And when they heard this, the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.
- Job 8:2 “How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
- Job 11:14 if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
- Job 22:23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
- Psalms 62:3 How long will you threaten a man? Will all of you throw him down like a leaning wall or a tottering fence?
- Proverbs 4:24 Put away deception from your mouth; keep your lips from perverse speech.
- Proverbs 6:9 How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
- Matthew 7:1 “Do not judge, or you will be judged.
- Ephesians 4:25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
- Ephesians 4:31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.