Look, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your forefather’s family, so that none in your family will reach old age.

日子必到，我要折断你的膀臂和你父家的膀臂，使你家中没有一个老年人。

看哪，日子将到，我要折断你的膀臂和你祖宗家的膀臂，使你家中没有一个老年人。

看哪，日子将到，我要折断你的膀臂和你祖宗家的膀臂，使你家中没有一个老年人。

看啊，时候将到，我要终结你和你家族的力量，你们家族必没有一个老人。

日子快到了，我要砍下你和你父亲的膀臂，使你家中再没有有权势的长者。

“看哪，日子将到，我必砍下你的膀臂和你父家的膀臂，使你家中没有一个老年人。

日子必到，我要折斷你的膀臂和你父家的膀臂，使你家中沒有一個老年人。

看哪，日子將到，我要折斷你的膀臂和你祖宗家的膀臂，使你家中沒有一個老年人。

看哪，日子將到，我要折斷你的膀臂和你祖宗家的膀臂，使你家中沒有一個老年人。

看啊，時候將到，我要終結你和你家族的力量，你們家族必沒有一個老人。

日子快到了，我要砍下你和你父親的膀臂，使你家中再沒有有權勢的長者。

你看吧，日子必到，我必把你的膀臂、和你父的家的膀臂砍下來，使你家中沒有一個老年人。

「看哪，日子將到，我必砍下你的膀臂和你父家的膀臂，使你家中沒有一個老年人。

其日將至、必斷爾臂、及爾祖家之臂、使爾家中無一耆老、

越至後日、我將絕爾及全家之力、使爾家中無一耆老。

日將至、我必折爾臂、與爾父家之臂、使爾家中無一老者、

The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your priestly house, so that no one in it will reach old age,

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.

Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

The time is coming when I will put an end to your family, so it will no longer serve as my priests. All the members of your family will die before their time. None will reach old age.

Behold, the days are coming when I will eliminate your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

Behold, the days are coming that I will cut off your arm and the arm of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

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.

“‘ Look, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your ancestral family, so that none in your family will reach old age.

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.

In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength and the strength of your father’s house. There will not be an old man in your house!

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.

Then the king ordered the guards standing by him,“ Turn and kill the priests of the LORD because they sided with David. For they knew he was fleeing, but they didn’t tell me.” But the king’s servants would not lift a hand to execute the priests of the LORD.So the king said to Doeg,“ Go and execute the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite went and executed the priests himself. On that day, he killed eighty-five men who wore linen ephods.He also struck down Nob, the city of the priests, with the sword— both men and women, infants and nursing babies, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.However, one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped. His name was Abiathar, and he fled to David.

The Philistines lined up in battle formation against Israel, and as the battle intensified, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who struck down about four thousand men on the battlefield.

The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.That same day, a Benjaminite man ran from the battle and came to Shiloh. His clothes were torn, and there was dirt on his head.When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair beside the road waiting, because he was anxious about the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the entire city cried out.Eli heard the outcry and asked,“ Why this commotion?” The man quickly came and reported to Eli.At that time Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes didn’t move because he couldn’t see.The man said to Eli,“ I’m the one who came from the battle. I fled from there today.”“ What happened, my son?” Eli asked.The messenger answered,“ Israel has fled from the Philistines, and also there was a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off the chair by the city gate, and since he was old and heavy, his neck broke and he died. Eli had judged Israel forty years.Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news about the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth because her labor pains came on her.As she was dying, the women taking care of her said,“ Don’t be afraid. You’ve given birth to a son!” But she did not respond or pay attention.

Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod, was also there. He was the son of Ahitub, the brother of Ichabod son of Phinehas, son of Eli the LORD’s priest at Shiloh. But the troops did not know that Jonathan had left.

“ Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Look, it has not been bandaged— no medicine has been applied and no splint put on to bandage it so that it can grow strong enough to handle a sword.Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: Look! I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand.I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them among the countries.I will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and place my sword in his hand. But I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan before him as a mortally wounded man.

For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD supports the righteous.

Then the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in Joab’s place over the army, and he appointed the priest Zadok in Abiathar’s place.

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Surely the Levites who wandered away from me when Israel went astray, and who strayed from me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.

The king said to the priest Abiathar,“ Go to your fields in Anathoth. Even though you deserve to die, I will not put you to death today, since you carried the ark of the Lord GOD in the presence of my father David and you suffered through all that my father suffered.”So Solomon banished Abiathar from being the LORD’s priest, and it fulfilled the LORD’s prophecy he had spoken at Shiloh against Eli’s family.