1 Samuel 1:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Be´li-al: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Regard not your handmaid as a wicked woman; for out of my great complaint and bitter provocation I have been speaking.

American Standard Version (1901)

Count not thy handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto.

Common English Bible

Don’t think your servant is some good-for-nothing woman. This whole time I’ve been praying out of my great worry and trouble!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

You should not repute your handmaid as one of the daughters of Belial. For I have been speaking from the abundance of my sorrow and grief, even until now."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Count not thy handmaid for one of the daughters of Belial: for out of the abundance of my sorrow and grief have I spoken till now.

1 Samuel 1:16 Cross References

Psalm 55:2

Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

Deuteronomy 13:13

Certain men, the children of Be´li-al, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;

Deuteronomy 13:14

then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;

1 Samuel 1:15

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.

1 Samuel 1:17

Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.

1 Samuel 10:27

But the children of Be´li-al said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no presents. But he held his peace.

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were sons of Be´li-al; they knew not the Lord.

1 Samuel 25:25

Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Be´li-al, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.