1 Samuel 2:31 - The Message31-36 “Be well warned: It won’t be long before I wipe out both your family and your future family. No one in your family will make it to old age! You’ll see good things that I’m doing in Israel, but you’ll see it and weep, for no one in your family will live to enjoy it. I will leave one person to serve at my Altar, but it will be a hard life, with many tears. Everyone else in your family will die before their time. What happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be the proof: Both will die the same day. Then I’ll establish for myself a true priest. He’ll do what I want him to do, be what I want him to be. I’ll make his position secure and he’ll do his work freely in the service of my anointed one. Survivors from your family will come to him begging for handouts, saying, ‘Please, give me some priest work, just enough to put some food on the table.’” See the chapterMore versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 176931 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. See the chapterAmplified Bible - Classic Edition31 Behold, the time is coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your own father's house, that there shall not be an old man in your house. See the chapterAmerican Standard Version (1901)31 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. See the chapterCommon English Bible31 The days are coming soon when I will eliminate both your children and the children of your father’s household. There won’t be an old person left in your family tree. See the chapterCatholic Public Domain Version31 Behold the days are arriving, when I will cut off your arm, and the arm of the house of your father, so that there will not be an old man in your house. See the chapter |