And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
Ver. 14. How long wilt thou be drunken?] Eli sat there for the purpose to see good order observed: and seeing Hannah's strange and uncouth gestures, knowing also that she was newly risen from a feast, he suspected that all was not well.
Put away thy wine from thee.] Go, sleep out thy drunkenness, and this alienation of thy mind, caused by a too liberal use of wine, which thou shouldst rather do, quam ut turpiter eructes coram Iehovah, than do on this sort.