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1 Samuel 1:16

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.

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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771

Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial,.... A yokeless, a lawless, impudent, and abandoned creature; one of…

Adam ClarkeMethodist theologian, 1762–1832

Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial - אל תתן את אמתך לפני בת בליעל al titten eth amathecha liphney bath…

Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–17141 Samuel 1:9-18

Elkanah had gently reproved Hannah for her inordinate grief, and here we find the good effect of the reproof.

I. It…

Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921

a daughter of Belial Rather, a worthless, or, wicked woman. Our translators have wrongly treated this word as a proper…