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1 Samuel 1:16
Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial - al titten eth amathecha liphney bath Beliyael ; ' Put not thy handmaiden before the faces of a daughter of Belial." "If I am a drunkard, and strive by the most execrable hypocrisy (praying in the house of God) to cover my iniquity, then I am the chief of the daughters of Belial." Or, "Give not thy handmaid (to reproach) before the faces of the daughters of Belial." Several of these probably attended there for the purposes of prostitution and gain; for it is said, I Samuel 2:22, that Eli' s sons lay with the women at the door of the tabernacle, though this may refer to the women who kept the door.
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