1 Samuel 1:16 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 1:16

Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”

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ASV

Count not thy handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.

KJV

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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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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 1Sa 25:17. Drunkenness in man is au abominable crime, but much more in a woman.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

This mistaken impression was immediately removed, and, in the words, "God grant," or rather, "will grant," was followed by an invocation which, as Hannah regarded it in the light of a prophecy pointing to the accomplishment of her earnest desire, dispelled her sadness, and filled her with confident hope [1Sa 1:18].

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אַל־	'al-	may not	H408 →
תִּתֵּן֙	ti.Ten	you give	H5414 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
אֲמָ֣תְךָ֔	'a.Ma.te.kha	maidservant your	H519 →
לִפְנֵ֖י	lif.Nei	<to> before	H6440 →
בַּת־	bat-	a daughter of	H1323 →
בְּלִיָּ֑עַל	be.li.Ya.'al	worthlessness	H1100 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
מֵרֹ֥ב	me.Ro	from [the] greatness of	H7230 →
שִׂיחִ֛י	si.Chi	complaint my	H7879 →
וְכַעְסִ֖י	ve.kha'.Si	and provocation my	H3708 →
דִּבַּ֥רְתִּי	di.Bar.ti	I have spoken	H1696 →
עַד־	'ad-	until	H5704 →
הֵֽנָּה׃	He.nah	now	H2008 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 6:15
  What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Romans 1:28–30
  Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- Jeremiah 2:8
  The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
- Romans 1:21
  For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.
- Judges 2:10
  After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel.
Through
Deuteronomy 13:13
that wicked men have arisen from among you and have led the people of their city astray, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” (which you have not known),
leads to
- 1 John 2:19
  They went out from us, but they did not belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But their departure made it clear that none of…
- Deuteronomy 13:6
  If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor…
- Deuteronomy 13:2
  and if the sign or wonder he has spoken to you comes about, but he says, “Let us follow other gods (which you have not known) and let us worship them,”

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Where the connections lead

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About 1 Samuel