31The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your family line


In Context

28 I chose your father out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in my presence. I also gave your father's house all the offerings made with fire by the Israelites.

29 Why do you scorn my sacrifice and offering that I prescribed for my dwelling? Why do you honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choice parts of every offering made by my people Israel?'

30 "Therefore the Lord , the God of Israel, declares: 'I promised that your house and your father's house would minister before me forever.' But now the Lord declares: 'Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained.

31 The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your family line

32 and you will see distress in my dwelling. Although good will be done to Israel, in your family line there will never be an old man.

33 Every one of you that I do not cut off from my altar will be spared only to blind your eyes with tears and to grieve your heart, and all your descendants will die in the prime of life.

1st Samuel 2:31 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:31Behold, 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:31Behold the days come: and 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:31Behold, 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:31Behold, 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:31Behold, 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:31Behold, 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:31Behold, 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:31Lo, 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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:31Behold, 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.