Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 1:13

13 Now Hannah, she spake in her heart, only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard . therefore Eli thought she had been drunken .

Partly, to avoid the suspition of vain-glory: partly, because she would not have others acquainted with her Barrenness, which was matter of reproach: and partly, because she would not disturb others, who at this Solemn Feast were probably imployed there in the same work.

Because of the multitude of her words, and those uncouth Gestures and Motions of her Face and Body, which the vehemency of her Passion, and her fervency in Prayer, caused in her, as it doth frequently in others; and because she was but newly come from a Feast, wherein the manner was to Eat and Drink liberally, (though not to excess) which he knew very well, both from the general Custom of that Season, and from the time of the day.

Marginal references: Heb. accounted her for drunken. So Gr.