1 SAMUEL 1:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.”
Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman and said to her: How long will you make a drunken display of yourself?—Eli's misinterpretation is both a humiliation and a veiled insult: drunkenness at the sanctuary violates holiness. Yet his error reveals the strangeness of Hannah's prayer—it looks abnormal, possessed, perhaps ecstatic.
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