John Gill's Exposition on 1 Samuel 1:16

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial, etc.] 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 <092517>1 Samuel 25:17,25). Drunkenness in man is au abominable crime, but much more in a woman. The Romans f30 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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