1st Samuel Chapter 2 verse 31 Holy Bible
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 thy house.
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See, the days are coming when your arm and the arm of your father's people will be cut off;
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Behold, 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 thy house.
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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.
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Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thy arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.
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Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your father's house, that there shall not be an old man in your house.
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`Lo, days `are' coming, and I have cut off thine arm, and the arm of the house of thy father, that an old man is not in thy house;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 31. - I will cut off thine arm. The arm is the usual metaphor for strength. As Eli had preferred the exaltation of his sons to God's honour, he is condemned to see the strength of his house broken. Nay, more; there is not to be an "old man in his house." The young men full of energy and vigour perish by the sword; the Survivors fade away by disease. The Jews say that the house of Ithamar was peculiarly short-lived, but the prophecy was amply fulfilled in the slaughter of Eli's house, first at Shiloh, and then at Nob by Doeg the Edomite at the command of Saul. There is nothing to warrant an abiding curse upon his family. The third or fourth generation is the limit of the visitation of the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(31) I will cut off thine arm.--"The arm" signifies power and strength: "Thy power and strength, and that of thy house is doomed." (See for the figure Job 22:9; Psalm 37:17.)And there shall not be an old man in thine house.--No one more in thy house, O High Priest, who hast so signally failed in thy solemn duty, shall attain to old age; sickness or the sword shall ever early consume its members. This strange denunciation of the "man of God" is emphasised by being repeated in the next (32) verse, and in different words again in 1Samuel 2:33.
