1 Samuel 2:31

New International Reader's Version

The time is coming when I will cut your life short. I will also cut short the lives of those in your family line of priests. No one in your family line will grow old.

Cross References

1 Kings 2:35

The king put Benaiah in charge of the army. Benaiah took Joab’s place. The king also put Zadok the priest in Abiathar’s place.

Job 22:9

But you sent widows away without anything. You mistreated children whose fathers had died.

Psalm 37:17

The power of those who are evil will be broken. But the Lord takes good care of those who do what is right.

Ezekiel 44:10

“Some Levites wandered far away from me when Israel went astray. They worshiped the statues of their gods. So they will be punished because they have sinned.

1 Samuel 14:3

Ahijah was one of them. He was wearing a sacred linen apron. He was a son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub. Ahitub was the son of Eli’s son Phinehas. Eli had been the Lord’s priest in Shiloh. No one was aware that Jonathan had left.

1 Samuel 3:12

At that time I will do everything to Eli and his family that I said I would. I will finish what I have started.

1 Samuel 4:2

The Philistines brought their forces together to fight against Israel. As the fighting spread, the Israelites lost the battle to the Philistines. The Philistines killed about 4,000 of them on the field of battle.