1 Samuel 2:31

Translations

Modern

Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no one in it will reach old age.

Traditional

Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father’s house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.

Literal

Behold, the days are coming, and I will cut off your arm and the arm of the house of your father, lest there be an old man in your house.

Latin

Ecce dies veniunt, et præcidam brachium tuum, et brachium domus patris tui, ut non sit senex in domo tua.

Original

Hebrew

English

Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no one in it will reach old age.

Notes

Theme notes and profiles

Abiathar Eli Zadok The Priestly Blessing

Related verses

1 Samuel 22:17–20
Then the king ordered the guards at his side, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because they too sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they did not tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to strike the priests of the LORD.
1 Kings 2:26–27
Then the king said to Abiathar the priest, “Go back to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death at this time, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD before my father David, and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”
1 Samuel 14:3
…including Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh. But the troops did not know that Jonathan had left.
1 Samuel 4:11–20
The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
1 Kings 2:35
And the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in Joab’s place over the army, and he appointed Zadok the priest in Abiathar’s place.
Ezekiel 44:10
Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.
Job 22:9
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
Psalm 37:17
For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
1 Samuel 4:2
The Philistines arrayed themselves against Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who struck down about four thousand men on the battlefield.
Ezekiel 30:21–24
“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. See, it has not been bound up for healing, or splinted for strength to hold the sword.

Glossary

Eli Phinehas Priests and Levites Samuel (Person) Samuel, Books of First and Second Zadok

Topics

Abiathar: High Priest--Called Ahimelech: Thrust out of office by Solomon Eli: Prophecies of Judgments Upon his House Hophni: Sin of Judgments: Eli's House Parents: Indulgent: Eli Parents: Involved in Children's Wickedness The High Priest: Family of Eli Degraded from office of, for Bad Conduct

1 Samuel 2:31

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