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.
Context
This verse from 1 Samuel Chapter 1 connects to 10 cross-references. Hannah, one of Elkanah's two wives and the one without children, prays with bitter weeping at the Shiloh tabernacle, vowing to give a son to God as a Nazirite; the priest Eli initially thinks her drunk but then blesses her. …
Other Translations
Count not thy handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.
put not thy handmaid before a daughter of worthlessness, for from the abundance of my meditation, and of my provocation, I have spoken hitherto.'
Do not take your servant to be a good-for-nothing woman: for my words have come from my stored-up sorrow and pain.
Cross References
Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, …
Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the Lord.
But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no …
Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so …
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness …
I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart …
A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out …