1 Samuel 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.
1 Samuel 1:16 in other translations
| BSB | 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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| WEB | Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.” |
| ASV | Count not thy handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto. |
| YLT | put not thy handmaid before a daughter of worthlessness, for from the abundance of my meditation, and of my provocation, I have spoken hitherto.' |
| DARBY | Take not thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my grief and provocation have I spoken hitherto. |
| BBE | Do not take your servant to be a good-for-nothing woman: for my words have come from my stored-up sorrow and pain. |
| Webster | Count not thy handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto. |
What does 1 Samuel 1:16 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Samuel 1:12-18
12-18. Eli marked her mouth--The suspicion of the aged priest seems to indicate that the vice of intemperance was neither uncommon nor confined to one sex in those times of disorder. 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…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Samuel 1:9-18
Hannah mingled tears with her prayers; she considered the mercy of our God, who knows the troubled soul. God gives us leave, in prayer, not only to ask good things in general, but to mention that special good thing we most need and desire. She spoke softly, none could hear her. Hereby she testified her belief of God's knowledge of the heart and its desires. Eli was high priest, and judge in Israel. It ill becomes us…
1 Samuel 1:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Samuel 1:16
- 1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord.
- Deuteronomy 13:13
Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
- Matthew 12:34-35
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
- Job 10:1-2
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
- Job 6:2-3
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
- 1 Samuel 25:25
Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.
- 1 Samuel 10:27
But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.
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Context
- 1 Samuel 1:15
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.
- 1 Samuel 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.
- 1 Samuel 1:17
Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
1 Samuel 1:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No tengas á tu sierva por una mujer impía: porque por la magnitud de mis congojas y de mi aflicción he hablado hasta ahora. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ne mets pas ta servante au rang d’une fille de Bélial; car c’est dans la grandeur de ma plainte et de mon chagrin que j’ai parlé jusqu’à présent. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Setze nicht deine Magd einer Tochter Belials gleich; denn aus der Fülle meines Kummers und meiner Kränkung habe ich bisher geredet. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ne reputes ancillam tuam quasi unam de filiabus Belial: quia ex multitudine doloris et mœroris mei locuta sum usque in præsens. |