14And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
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Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.
If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-18)Elkanah had gently reproved Hannah for her inordinate grief, and here we find the good effect of the reproof. I. It brought her to her meat. She ate and drank, 1 Sam. 1:9. She did not harden herself in sorrow, nor grow sullen when she was reproved for it; but, when she perceived her husband uneasy that she did not come and eat with them, she cheered up her own spirits as well as she could, and cam…
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