1 Samuel 2:31
29 Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
30 Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.
Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no older man will be left in your house.
32 You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age.
33 And every one of you that I do not cut off from My altar, your eyes will fail and your heart will grieve. All your descendants will die by the sword of men.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no older man will be left in your house.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Behold, the days come that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, that there will not be an old man in your house.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- 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.
- BLB
- 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.
- ÅB
- Se, dager skal komme da jeg avhugger din arm og din fars slekts arm, så ingen i din slekt skal bli gammel.
- OTB
- Tiden kommer da Jeg vil kutte av din styrke og styrken til din familie, så ingen i ditt hus vil nå høy alder.
- B1930
- Se, dager skal komme da jeg avhugger din arm og din fars ætts arm, så ingen i din ætt skal bli gammel.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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.
Read in context1 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.”
Read in context1 Samuel 4:11–20
The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.
Read in context1 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.
Read in context1 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.
Read in context1 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.
Read in contextEzekiel 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.
Read in contextJob 22:9
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
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