Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”
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Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”
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Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
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Count not thy handmaid for a wicked woman: for out of the abundance of my complaint and my vexation have I spoken hitherto.'
Cross-references (7)
Passages linked to 1 Samuel 1:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Samuel 2:12 Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.
- Job 6:2-3 “Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.
- Job 10:1-2 “My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
- Matthew 12:34-35 You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.
- Deuteronomy 13:13 certain wicked fellows have gone out from among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods,” which you have not known,
- 1 Samuel 10:27 But certain worthless fellows said, “How could this man save us?” They despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.
- 1 Samuel 25:25 Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal; for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men, whom you sent.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Hebrew, for a daughter of Belial.
Hebrew, for a daughter of Belial.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Sa 1:16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter…
1Sa 1:16 Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.
Ver. 16. Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial.] That is, Of the devil, as all drunkards are confessedly. Behemoth lieth in the fens, {Job 40:21} which Gul. Parisiensis applieth to the devil dwelling in drunken hearts. See Luk 11:24. Oh that our carousers were persuaded, as Mohammed told his followers, that in every grape there dwelt a devil!
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For out of the abundance of my complaint and grief.] Not of wine, or any other inebriating liquor, whereof the Italians, besides wine, have many sorts: the most delicious they blasphemously call Lachrymae Christi. If Hannah were drunk at all, it was with her own tears, which she, poor soul, had drunk in great abundance.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain For a daughter of Belial; for such a wicked…
For a daughter of Belial; for such a wicked monster, as a drunken woman is. The oppression of my spirits hath forced me to speak, and that so liberally at this time, for the case of my sinking heart.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial,....…
Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial,.... A yokeless, a lawless, impudent, and abandoned creature; one of the most wicked, vilest, and most profligate wretches; as she must be to come drunk into the sanctuary of God; see Sa1 25:17. Drunkenness in man is au abominable crime, but much more in a woman. The Romans (a) forbad wine to women, and drunkenness in them was a capital crime, as adultery, or any other; and indeed a drunken woman is liable to all manner of sin:
for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto; out of the abundance of the heart the mouth will speak, whether it is matter of trouble or of joy; the heart of Hannah was full of grief, and her mouth full of complaints, on which she long dwelt, in order to give vent thereunto, and ease herself.
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(a) Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 14. c. 13.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Count not, &c. - Thus when we are unjustly…
Count not, &c. - Thus when we are unjustly censured, we should endeavour not only to clear ourselves, but to satisfy our brethren, by giving them a just and true account of that which they misapprehended.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. Count not thine handmaid for a daughter…
Verse 16. Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial] אל תתן את אמתך לפני בת בליעל al titten eth amathecha liphney bath Beliyael; 'Put not thy handmaiden before the faces of a daughter of Belial." "If I am a drunkard, and strive by the most execrable hypocrisy (praying in the house of God) to cover my iniquity, then I am the chief of the daughters of Belial." Or, "Give not thy handmaid to reproach) before the faces of the daughters of Belial." Several of these probably attended there for the purposes of prostitution and gain; for it is said, 1Sa 2:22, that Eli's sons lay with the women at the door of the tabernacle, though this may refer to the women who kept the door.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Sa 1:16. Count not thy handmaid for a daughter…
1Sa 1:16. Count not thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial, &c. — A Scripture phrase for a wicked person. Thus, when we are unjustly censured, we should endeavour not only to clear ourselves, but to satisfy our brethren, by giving them a just and true account of what they misapprehended.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Belial; "without restraint;" abandoned. (Haydock) --- Septuagint, "pestiferous." ---…
Belial; "without restraint;" abandoned. (Haydock) --- Septuagint, "pestiferous." --- Sorrow. Hebrew, "meditation;" (Calmet) what preys upon my spirits. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. A daughter of Belial — The Hebrew word…
16. A daughter of Belial — The Hebrew word בליעל, beliyaal, rendered as a proper name here and frequently elsewhere in the Old Testament, means worthlessness, lowness. Our translators have rendered it variously — wicked, (Deu_15:9;) evil, (Psa_41:8;) naughty, (Pro_6:12;) ungodly, (Pro_16:27;) and scholars are now generally agreed that it is nowhere to be taken as a proper name.
It should here be rendered, a daughter of worthlessness, that is, a low, worthless, licentious woman, such as were those whom Eli’s own sons corrupted. 1Sa_2:22. Hannah besought Eli not to class her among those wretched prostitutes.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. a daughter of Belial] Rather, a worthless, or,…
16. a daughter of Belial] Rather, a worthless, or, wicked woman. Our translators have wrongly treated this word as a proper name in the historical books, but not elsewhere, though the alternative is generally given in the margin. It means worthlessness, and according to the usual Hebrew idiom a son or daughter of worthlessness signifies “a worthless man or woman,” and with positively bad sense, a lawless, ungodly, wicked person. If “naughty,” by which the word is rendered in Pro_6:12, had retained its archaic sense, it would be a fair equivalent. “Belial,” or more correctly “Beliar,” is used by St Paul in 2Co_6:15 as a name of Satan, the personification of all lawlessness and worthlessness. Milton naturally follows the E. V. in regarding Belial as the name of a spirit.
“Belial, than whom a spirit more lewd
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Feel not from heaven, … to him no temple stood,
Or altar smoked, yet who more oft than he
In temples and at altars, when the priest
Turns atheist, as did Eli’s sons, who filled
With lust and violence the house of God.”
Paradise Lost, I. 490, ff.
grief] Lit. “provocation” (cp. 1Sa_1:6), or “vexation” as the consequence of provocation.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 1:16 wicked woman (Hebrew a daughter of Belial): An…
1:16 wicked woman (Hebrew a daughter of Belial): An expression used to describe a worthless person. Belial (“worthlessness”) is later used as a name for Satan (2 Cor 6:15). In Hebrew, a son of or daughter of a quality is a person who exemplifies that quality.
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