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.


In Context

28 Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

29 Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?'

30 |Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.' But now Yahweh says, 'Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

31 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.

32 You shall see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.

33 The man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall be to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.

1 Samuel 2:31 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:31The 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

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 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.